Yuval Noah Harari
How many young college graduates have taken demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue their real interests when they are thirty-five? But by the time they reach that age, they have large mortgages, children to school, houses in the suburbs that necessitate at least two cars per family, and a … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Yuval Noah Harari | Subjects: Career, Personal Development
Yuval Noah Harari
Trade may seem a very pragmatic activity, one that needs no fictive basis. Yet the fact is that no animal other than Sapiens engages in trade, and all the Sapiens trade networks about which we have detailed evidence were based on fictions. Trade cannot exist without trust, and it is very difficult to trust strangers. The global trade network of today is based on our … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Yuval Noah Harari | Subjects: Economics, Trade