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Sam Harris ON: How To Break Your Social Media Habits & Ways to Master Your Anxious Thoughts

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

CHAPTER

The Role of Luck in Life

I think we have an ethical imperative to acknowledge the massive role of the people and the massive role that luck plays in our lives. And I think we should want to cancel the most egregious differences in good and bad luck between people. We're immensely lucky, but with that comes a certain responsibility, but also opportunity to spread the luck around. It's not to say that capitalism is wrong; some asymmetries may in fact be the optimal way to encourage people's creativity and innovation.

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