Zero to One_ Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future ( PDFDrive )

Their indefiniteness took different forms. Rawls begins A Theory of Justice
with the famous “veil of ignorance”: fair political reasoning is supposed to be
impossible for anyone with knowledge of the world as it concretely exists.
Instead of trying to change our actual world of unique people and real
technologies, Rawls fantasized about an “inherently stable” society with lots of
fairness but little dynamism. Nozick opposed Rawls’s “patterned” concept of
justice. To Nozick, any voluntary exchange must be allowed, and no social
pattern could be noble enough to justify maintenance by coercion. He didn’t
have any more concrete ideas about the good society than Rawls: both of them
focused on process. Today, we exaggerate the differences between left-liberal
egalitarianism and libertarian individualism because almost everyone shares
their common indefinite attitude. In philosophy, politics, and business, too,
arguing over process has become a way to endlessly defer making concrete plans
for a better future.
Indefinite Life
Our ancestors sought to understand and extend the human lifespan. In the 16th
century, conquistadors searched the jungles of Florida for a Fountain of Youth.