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Matt Ridley • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
But so long as somewhere somebody is incentivised to invent ways of serving others’ needs better, then the rational optimist must conclude that the betterment of human lives will eventually resume.
Matt Ridley • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
I find the world is full of people who think that their dependence on others is decreasing, or that they would be better off if they were more self-sufficient, or that technological progress has brought no improvement in the standard of living, or that the world is steadily deteriorating, or that the exchange of things and ideas is a superfluous ir... See more
Matt Ridley • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
I am a rational optimist: rational, because I have arrived at optimism not through temperament or instinct, but by looking at the evidence.
Matt Ridley • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
Innovations come in many forms, but one thing they all have in common, and which they share with biological innovations created by evolution, is that they are enhanced forms of improbability.