01 · The Library — The Material World
Comfort Kills Ambition
The material conditions of a comfortable life are also, precisely, the conditions that make it unimaginable to change one.
Nobody in the room wants the outcome they are voting for. They want the outcome they are voting for to arrive without any of them having to move house.
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