Skin in the Game: Let the unemployed & those earning below some threshold decide on minimum wage, not some virtue signaling bureaucrat. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Virtue is what you do when nobody is looking. The rest is marketing.

Books to me are not expanded journal articles, but reading experiences, and the academics who tend to read in order to cite in their writing — rather than read for enjoyment, curiosity, or simply because they like to read — tend to be frustrated when they can't rapidly scan the text and summarize it in one sentence that connects it to some existing discourse in which they have been involved.

The sucker problem is to think that those for whom you feel compassion would also feel compassion for those weaker and more afflicted than they are.