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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intergenerational cooperation requires trust

The blunt truth, however, is that the implicit intergenerational cooperation that represents the best outcome is supported by trust, not money. If the younger generation decides not to support the elder, the existence of tokens will make no difference. And if the older generation has invested in, s…

—p.82 The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy Good and Evil: In Money We Trust (51) by Mervyn King
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one solution: a development land tax

[...] Top of the list is a need for a development land tax to recoup rising land values and keep markets under control, championed by luminaries from Adam Smith and Lloyd George to Churchill. [...]

—p.126 Big Capital: Who Is London For? The 'Right to the City' (111) by Anna Minton
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ontology

This is what academics call 'ontological security', a sense of order and continuity in relation to experiences.

—p.110 Generation Rent (95) by Anna Minton
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