Welcome to Bookmarker!

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

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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people do not create their own fortunes

[...] The wealth of humans is societal. But the distribution of that wealth doesn't rest on markets or on social perceptions of who deserves what but on the ability of the powerful to use their power to retain whatever of the value society generates that they can.

That is not a radical statement…

—p.232 The Wealth of Humans: Work and its Absence in the Twenty-First Century Human Wealth (230) by Ryan Avent
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the thudding fist of the powerful

[...] it is easy for all the participants in the economy to convince themselves that their participation is what matters, that they are the authentic creators of value, that their effort is what ought to be rewarded most handsomely. And everyone has a point. But while we can rely on economics to do…

—p.231 Human Wealth (230) by Ryan Avent
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in labour organizers' dreams

[...] In labour organizers' dreams, that cooperation becomes a class consciousness--a solidarity--which would provided a coherence to a labour political agenda. [...]

—p.222 The Politics of Labour Abundance (213) by Ryan Avent
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