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#232 — Inequality and Revolution

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Circle of Comparison Is Tight

Billionaires can compare themselves to jeff bazos and elon musk. And there's something insidious about this, because if they were deploying their wealth in extremely pro social and generous ways, it wouldn't represent a kind of toxic capture of resources. But i think if people feel they haven't made it, even when they have a billion dollars on some level, and they're keeping score with reference to the people who have ten or a hundredfold more resources than they do. It either, you know, irods, good norms. We used to have m you can educate me on this point. I'm not sure how much we used to have them. Or at

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