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Inadequate Equilibria
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since 2026-02-02
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Murder Your Employer
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck but has an alibi, it's not a duck.
p. 135
The Human Condition
It is true that wealth can be accumulated to a point where no individual life-span can use it up, so that the family rather than the individual becomes its owner. Yet wealth remains something to be used and consumed no matter how many individual lifespan it may sustain. Only when wealth became capital, whose chief function was to generate more capital, did private property equal or come close to the permanence inherent in the commonly shared world.
p. 68