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284. Superabundance: The Age of Plenty | Marian Tupy, Gale Pooley

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Difference Between Atoms and Knowledge

Biologists would have been right if they considered knowledge as the key unit of measurement instead of atoms. Malthus did not take that into account, and that means he was wrong biologically, not just economically. A perfect example of the difference between atoms, which are final, or finite, and knowledge, which is potentially infinite is the most expensive car in the world called Bugatti Veyron.

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