It’s hard to predict what life will be like in a hundred years. There are only a few things we can say with certainty. We know that everyone will dri… - Paul Graham

Something I taught the boys on the way to school: one thing the story of the German concentration camps teaches us is how much potential for evil there is in so many apparently normal people.

We can't assume that if we had a single world government, the world would look like Europe and grow like America. More likely it would look like America and grow like Europe.

It may seem unlikely in principle that one individual could really generate so much more wealth than another. The key to this mystery is to revisit that question, are they really worth 100 of us? Would a basketball team trade one of their players for 100 random people? What would Apple’s next product look like if you replaced Steve Jobs with a committee of 100 random people?6 These things don’t scale linearly. Perhaps the CEO or the professional athlete has only ten times (whatever that means) the skill and determination of an ordinary person. But it makes all the difference that it’s concentrated in one individual.