
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Books of Titans Podcast
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Three Things I Did Not Like in Sapiens
In the Ferrari book, Sapiens talks about money and how there is a dividing line of where a flip, a switch gets flipped. The mere fact that Mediterranean people believed in gold would cause Indians to start believing in it as well. Similarly, the fact that another person believes in cowry shells or dollars is enough to strengthen our own belief in them. And so there's this idea that money can take, can take a root if, if enough people start using it, then it becomes the currency. On the opposite side, there's a point where things can be flipped on the negative side and this is where her are talking about myths. A natural order is a stable order, there
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