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    0 starsseregine | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 23 2008 | people, business, culture, education
    The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

    I wonder if this essay isn't a decade late. Seems obvious, no?

    Quoted: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers

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    0 starsseregine | Shared With: Everyone - May 07 2008 | people, society, business, history, work, carreer, jobs
    The Gospel of Consumption

    How industrialists created the consumer culture to keep people occupied. Baa.

    It's encouraging to know that there's plenty of room for improvement. Our world is a product of dirty historical conditions, from apes through tyrants to masterminds. We can clean them up to make a better world possible.

    Quoted: The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket.

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