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And it's to help all of us, myself included, to counteract the
tendency
to otherize.
And I think we have a
tendency
to make each other feel guilty.
I count the steps and the lampposts and all those things that visually impaired people have a
tendency
to have a lot of meetings with.
Is there any correlation, positive or negative, between intelligence and
tendency
to be religious?
Okay, this
tendency
we have, this seemingly natural
tendency
we have, towards isolation, towards keeping to ourselves, crashes head first into our modern world.
All across the globe, you have this
tendency
of men wanting a certificate.
To do that, the installation asks you to share a story, the computer then analyzes it for its simpler emotions, it checks for your
tendency
to use past-tense wording and also looks for words that we tend to associate with nostalgia, like "home," "childhood" and "the past."
Now, there's a
tendency
to think that the loss of our dark night skies is the inevitable outcome of progress, change, technology.
It's our
tendency
to overestimate our likelihood of experiencing good events in our lives and underestimate our likelihood of experiencing bad events.
Now we have the reverse
tendency.
And yet, his view of the world persists, and our
tendency
to see the workers as faceless masses, to imagine that we can know what they're really thinking.
We know that adolescents have a
tendency
to take risks.
So the United Nations did just that, and they recently issued a report on this whole area, and what they concluded was the power of this technology for positive was much greater than the risk for negative, and they even looked specifically at the DIYbio community, and they noted, not surprisingly, that the press had a
tendency
to consistently overestimate our capabilities and underestimate our ethics.
I've run several dozen such surveys in different parts of the world, and in all cases except one, where a group actually underestimated the trade-to-GDP ratio, people have this
tendency
towards overestimation, and so I thought it important to give a name to this, and that's what I refer to as globaloney, the difference between the dark blue bars and the light gray bars.
So I want to tell you that, if you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people tell you that it's impossible to make, well, that's an even better reason to want to do it, because people have a
tendency
to see the problems rather than the final result, whereas if you start to deal with problems as being your allies rather than your opponents, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing way.
Democracy was the political innovation that allowed us to limit the power, whether it was of tyrants or of high priests, their natural
tendency
to maximize power and wealth.
It's an antidote to the growing
tendency
we have to feel that we can really ever experience life by watching it on a computer screen, you know, when we're in a wi-fi zone.
If you get sleep, it reduces your mood changes, your stress, your levels of anger, your impulsivity, and your
tendency
to drink and take drugs.
And two percent of you have a
tendency
to extreme profanity.
And we have a tendency, as a society, to look at that and go, "So what?"
It's the opposite on the left side: more
tendency
to altruism, to happiness, to express, and curiosity and so forth.
As to the any danger exclusive of pain, the danger, if any, much consist in the
tendency
of the example.
But what is the
tendency
of this example?
Oh sure, we're very good at empathy when it's a question of dealing with people who kind of look like us and kind of walk and talk and eat and pray and wear like us, but when it comes to people who don't do that, who don't quite dress like us and don't quite pray like us and don't quite talk like us, do we not also have a
tendency
to see them ever so slightly as cardboard cutouts too?
Scale has a
tendency
to fool the eyes.
We have students who sit together, black kids and white kids, and what we've discovered is you can solve the race problem by creating a world class environment, because people will have a
tendency
to show you world class behavior if you treat them in that way.
So I've been working on the history of income and wealth distribution for the past 15 years, and one of the interesting lessons coming from this historical evidence is indeed that, in the long run, there is a
tendency
for the rate of return of capital to exceed the economy's growth rate, and this tends to lead to high concentration of wealth.
Thomas, I want to ask you two or three questions, because it's impressive how you're in command of your data, of course, but basically what you suggest is growing wealth concentration is kind of a natural
tendency
of capitalism, and if we leave it to its own devices, it may threaten the system itself, so you're suggesting that we need to act to implement policies that redistribute wealth, including the ones we just saw: progressive taxation, etc.
I'm a Marxist of the Groucho
tendency.
We have this
tendency
to put visible feminists on a pedestal.
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