439 Poets' Guide to Economics (with John Ramsden)
The History of Literature
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The Poets Don't Think That Most of Our Needs Are Really Necessary
The poets all had in common, i think, it was a feeling that most of our demands are actually superfluous. So they would sayand they would justify such a a drastic change by saying, i've looked into the human heart. We are never going to get around the idea of exploitation or or amassing wealth to no purpose. And society is just, it's never going to be able to get this until we completely transform society.
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