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Steven Johnson’s book How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World is one of the most eye opening books I have read.

https://youtu.be/p94zVXQkygc

Great video overview of Thomas Sowell’s book Intellectuals and Society. Sowell explains how intellectuals have misguided the public in the past and how they’re still doing it in the present. He also explains why intellectuals feel the need to step into areas where they don’t have enough expertise.

Dan Ariely reveals that society doesn’t desire to walk the walk when it comes to equality. He also reveals just how ignorant we really are when we talk the talk of equality. Perhaps the most disturbing part of the presentation is the point where Ariely reveals just how inequitable things really are and how out of scale CEO compensation is compared to the average worker.

Ariely didn’t comment on why we are so tolerant of this inequality so I must speculate. Is that so many of us are holding out for that huge windfall or opportunity that will enable us to have a piece of that top 1%, the top 10% or even a move up to the next level?

Consider for yourself…