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Rutger Bregman and Philippe Sands - Are Humans Naturally Good?

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Power Corrupts, and the Effect That It Has

Power corrupts. There's even some evidence on a neurological let all right, that powerful people just don't really light up any more. So i guesswe very often see this in our society. And i guess one of the disturbing things is that sometimes we've created systems that actually select for this to happen. ItSometimes reminds me, by the way, of scandinavian societies, where you have this phenomenon that they call ontus law, which basically means er that you shouldn't think too much of yourselfeh? We have that in the netherlands as well. You know, success is a little bit of a crime a it's really dangerous to become a best selling author

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