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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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the purpose is to justify existing inequalities

If we are to make progress on these issues in the future, it would be good to begin by working toward greater transparency than exists today. In the United States, France, and most other countries, talk about the virtues of the national meritocratic model is seldom based on close examination of the…

—p.487 A Social State for the Twenty-First Century (471) by Thomas Piketty
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no one deserves to be poor

But we should also realize that those societies do not belong to us. If we are lucky enough to find ourselves within them, we can argue credibly that we are contributing to them and therefore deserve a share of the benefits that flow from them. But the fact that we are lucky enough to be within the…

—p.238 The Wealth of Humans: Work and its Absence in the Twenty-First Century Human Wealth (230) by Ryan Avent
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threatening the system that provides for us

[...] Is there any reasonable story available which explains how it is that poverty in developing countries, or in the ghettos of disadvantage in rich countries, is a necessary part of the system that provides us with smartphones and luxury cars and enriches a relative handful of executives and fin…

—p.235 Human Wealth (230) by Ryan Avent