Cosmetic surgery is a kind of democratic solution to an undemocratic problem: the uneven distribution of beauty. “Envy is the basis of democracy,” as Bertrand Russell observed, but since beauty is a valuable commodity that is unfairly distributed (what political theorists call “the injustice of the given”) it can prompt extremes of envy about its [...]
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Cosmetic Surgery : The democratization of Beauty
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Computers, Jobs and Careers
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(via HBS) Which jobs have a future, which will evaporate under the onrush of technology? Will you have a career path next year? Three main types of work that cannot be described in rules and hard for computers to take over are 1. Identifying and solving new problems (if the problem is new, there is [...]
