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The Progress Paradox:
Instead of the big picture we often see the small picture, aware only of the lesser negative within the greater positive.
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The Progress Paradox:
…there’s no money to be made in harmony.
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The Progress Paradox:
Alarmism and anger are good to the pocketbooks of advocates of all ideological stripes; consensus and optimism are bad for business.
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The Progress Paradox:
Complaining may be a defensive mechanism to prevent complacency, but one whose side effect is making it hard to appreciate the moment.
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The Progress Paradox:
We would be foolish to expect possessions to make us happy, or an economic system to care about our emotional state.
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The Progress Paradox:
No matter how carefully one compares products, a buyer can never be sure that he or she chose the right thing, and so buyers experience anxiety before purchases, disappointment after.
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The Progress Paradox:
…much as the occasional luxury ends up becoming an essential, a huge proportion of what’s for sale today truly is a monument to that which is unnecessary.
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The Progress Paradox:
Once focused on our wants our thoughts can never be at peace, because wants can never be satisfied; not even a billionaire will ever have everything.
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The Progress Paradox:
Any free-market system inevitably will have unequal results because individuals have unequal talents, exert unequal effort, and experience unequal luck.
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The Progress Paradox:
…luck is often more of a factor in unequal outcomes than economic textbooks care to admit.
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