This was a very dense book and I would need to listen to it several times in order to get a decent understanding of what was being said.  A lot of it could be encompassed in venn diagrams when it came to the logic part.  The if A then B, and if A then C stuff would have been much better to understand in the Venn space.  I did like that part about the rhetoric and how things follow from each other.  This has somewhat to do with game theory, but is a far precursor of it.  Another statement that I like and is something that I tend to believe strongly is that wealth is not in the ownership of things but in the use of them.  I hope to remember that owning nice things is completely worthless except to have them be used.  And using nice things is the primary end of owning nice things, so if using the nice things can be accomplished without owning them you get about the same benefit overall.  This certainly applies strongly to some of the hobbies I’ve taken up recently, like sailing and horseback riding.  This also applies to having a car vs. using Zipcar or a similar sharing system for the car.  I’d gladly pay Steph so that I don’t have to own a car, but it is not a significant burden on her that she be the one to own a car out of the two of us.  The communal housing is another part of this idea that ownership is not wealth, but use is wealth.  With communal housing i get the use of many things my roommates have and they get the use of things that I have, thereby increasing the wealth of all of us.  I don’t think I’m going to be listening to something quite this dense for a good while, although once in a while listens to dense material is ok.

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