Piketty: unequal selves
Thomas Piketty’s recent work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, provides disturbing evidence about the increasing inequality of income and wealth between and within nations.…
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Getting high on search
A friend of mine recently sat in a waiting room in Singapore. The room was only large enough to hold a fence of chairs…
The commercial self
It’s an ancient human law and it makes us do extraordinary things. Author Tom Wolfe calls it serial immortality; it’s that unnamed force that…
Would you upload yourself?
By Russell Blackford If our minds are essentially what happens when our brains perform certain kinds of complex computations, then very powerful computers should…
Dying for your beliefs
Not all arguments are created equal. Many aren’t even arguments at all. Even utterances that appear to be advancing a rational argument might prove…
Do you really know yourself?
“Know thyself,” said the philosophers. No problem, said the rest of us. Self-help, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, inner self, outer self – we’ve got the self…
You are not who you think you are
You are not who you think you are. Philosophers, from the Buddha to David Hume to Derek Parfit, have been telling us that for…
Losing ourselves to technology
Millie’s vision became blurred and then she lost consciousness. Stressed and overworked, she took two weeks off, booked herself into a retreat, and slowly…
Invest in your masterpiece – yourself
Love yourself. Believe in yourself. And your dreams will come true. A few decades ago, psychologists began documenting the appearance of a new personality…
Factory Earth
The family is worried. Suggestions are passed between siblings, and aunts and uncles are eager to set things right. What about doing this job?…
Alienated from the pleasures of work
Zan Boag: As a group you have been meeting to discuss ‘work’ over the past two years, under the title ‘Labor, philosophy, and change’.…
Dirty thoughts on civilised leisure
By Damon Young “I work, God how I work... I have reduced it to a method and exalted it to a mania.” Meet Leonard…
