“Humans are relinquishing authority to the free market, to crowd wisdom and to external algorithms partly because we cannot deal with the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Just as free-market capitalists believe in the invisible hand of the market, so Dataists believe in the invisible hand of the dataflow.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The collapse of the family and the local community and their replacement by the state and the market.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“nobody really knows what the job market, the family or the ecology will look like in 2050, or which religions, economic systems… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It is dangerous to trust or future to market forces, because these forces do what's good for the market rather than what's… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years priests, rabbis and muftis explained that humans cannot overcome famine, plague and war by their own efforts. Then… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In many cases individuals are exploited by markets, and states employ their armies, police forces and bureaucracies to persecute individuals instead of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Because money can convert, store and transport wealth easily and cheaply, it made a vital contribution to the appearance of complex commercial… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
As algorithms push humans out of the job market, wealth and power might become concentrated in the hands of the tiny elite… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Even more money is transferred to the bank accounts of fashion designers, gym managers, dieticians, cosmeticians and plastic surgeons, who help us… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Since we do not know what the job market will look like in 2030 or 2040, already today we have no idea… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages the outbreak of a plague caused people to raise their eyes towards heaven, and pray to God to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas traditionally the family was the main matchmaker, today it’s the market that tailors our romantic and sexual preferences, and then lends… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Since we do not know what the job market will look like in 2030 or 2040, already today we have no idea… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It took the Afro-Asian giant several centuries to digest all that it had swallowed, but the process was irreversible. Today almost all… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naive as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Behind this monstrous shield, liberal democracy and the free market managed to hold out in their last bastions, and Westerners could enjoy… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing could be further… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing could be further… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The nation is the imagined community of the state. The consumer tribe is the imagined community of the market. Both are imagined… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“But in its extreme form, belief in the free market is as naïve as belief in Santa Claus. There simply is no… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
