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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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human emancipation

The threat from those who oppose this line of thought is that, without "incentives", people will stop working. The worst-case scenario is that tens of thousands of people who hold jobs in finance, corporate management, and the professions (not to mention professional sports and acting) will quit th…

Against Everything: Essays Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution (The Meaning of Life, Part II) (167) by Mark Greif
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charity is the vice of unequal systems

"But how can you ask other people to lower their salaries, without giving your life to charity first? Isn't it hypocrisy to call for change for everyone without turning over your own income?" Morality is not saved by any individual's efforts to do charity, a pocketful here, a handful there. Charity…

Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution (The Meaning of Life, Part II) (167) by Mark Greif
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the one word I will not speak

[...] They will call it "the n-word"--write it on a chalkboard rather than pronounce it--clear their thraots and give meaningful looks or avoid people's eyes. This was a sort of victory for antiracism. But the conspicuous theater of it, the sheer ostentation of the one word I will not speak, also…

Learning to Rap (136) by Mark Greif