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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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metanorm

Robert Axelrod [...] found that for a social norm to become established [...] society must also and especially disapprove of those who fail to show their disapproval of the offending behavior. This second-order norm enforcement mechanism is called a 'metanorm'

—p.335 Utopia or bust (303) by Bob Hughes
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coalminers and ballet dancers

Given the extreme discomfort and danger of coalmining work, it can seem extraordinary that people would fight so hard and suffer so much to preserve it--but perhaps it is no more extraordinary than the lengths dancers, musicians, writers and climbers will go to, to do what they have set their heart…

—p.332 Utopia or bust (303) by Bob Hughes
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they are changing the world archive/dissertation

In 2013, the New Yorker's George Packer found that companies like Google and Facebook are full of people who fervently believe they are changing the world more effectively than any government can, and that it is entirely appropriate to become extremely rich by doing so. Packer found the phrase 'c…

—p.304 Utopia or bust (303) by Bob Hughes
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the sheer scale of the redundancy

The attempt to shut down the economy in October 1972 not only failed; it also shone a floodlight on the sheer scale of the redundancy (in terms of unnecessary equipment and so on) a supposedly 'efficient', competition-based economy needs, just to that its players can compete with each other.

—p.294 A socialist computer: Chile, 1970-1973 (280) by Bob Hughes