
SAPIENS: Yuval Noah Harari on Our Past, Present, and Future
The Next Big Idea
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Origin Stories Are Not Origin
Most money today in the world is just electronic data passing between computers. It works on the basis of a story, you have the greatest storytellers in the world - bankers and finance ministers. And yes, origin stories as you said are very, very important, they explain who we are. Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, maybe most of the part of the world,. the origin stories tend to be very narrow. They tell about the origin of just one human group, not of humanity as a whole.
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