Gaurav

“Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology (‘Just do it’) to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas frugality is self-oppression.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The more extreme the original score, the more regression we expect, because an extremely good score suggests a very lucky day. The regressive prediction is reasonable, but its accuracy is not guaranteed.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Consumerism and nationalism work extra hours to make us imagine that millions of strangers belong to the same community as ourselves, that we all have a common past, common interests and a common future. This isn’t a lie. It’s imagination. Like money, limited liability companies and human rights, nations and consumer tribes are inter-subjective realities. They exist only in our collective imagination, yet their power is immense.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“This trust is the sole backing for most of the money in the world.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind