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I agree your premise in a limited context: non fiction books.

Non fiction books often pad out very little info into an entire tome simply because that’s one of the few ways you can make money from your idea.

But this doesn’t apply just to economics. The most egregious of this are books about programming languages and architecture if you ask me.

In philosophy and elsewhere, a good author might write a lot but still be concise. That’s just because they have a lot to say. Or they need more examples.

This article wasn’t even that verbose. I don’t see how what he said related to star man though, but that’s a different topic.



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