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27 May 2023

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From one piece Modern Aging Has Two Very New Dangers (Psychology Today, Cultural Animal) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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As people live longer by caring for their bodies, dementia will claim larger and larger numbers

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When most people died before 70, only a small and unfortunate minority got dementia. But now that people take better care of their bodies, such that increasing numbers manage to live until 90 or 100, dementia will claim larger and larger numbers.

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Aging has two new dangers that emerged from changes in society: outliving your money and outliving your brain

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But just in the past couple decades, aging has developed two new dangers. Both have only emerged as a result of fundamental changes in society. In a nutshell, the two new threats are outliving your money, and outliving your brain.

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11 May 2023

Roy BaumeisterKorrents 11 May 2023

From one piece Why Do Republicans and Democrats Hate Each Other? (Psychology Today, Cultural Animal) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Political hatred and demonization may suit short-term vote-getting but, I think, do considerable long-run damage to the social fabric

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Hatred and demonization may be well suited to short-term vote-getting and also well suited to social media, but in the long run, I think they do considerable damage to the social fabric.

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Unregulated marketplaces give rise to environmental degradation, exploitation and other problems

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But letting the political rightists run things soon creates problems too. Unregulated marketplaces give rise to environmental degradation, exploitation, and other problems.

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Incentives create inequality by definition; inequality is their very purpose

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But incentives create inequality–by definition! Inequality is the very purpose of incentives.

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A thriving society needs both the left's redistributing of resources and the right's producing and conserving of them

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In short, the left focuses on redistributing and sharing resources. The right focuses on producing and conserving them. A thriving society needs both of these jobs to get done.

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Perhaps the optimal outcome for a modern democracy is ongoing alternation in power between left and right

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Instead of thinking that one is always right and the other always wrong, perhaps the optimal outcome for a modern democracy is an ongoing alternation in power between the left and the right.

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