Better Call Paul
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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Are We Going to Have a Culture War?
Rene Girard says that the more egalitarian society gets, the more divisions will have less to do with economics and more to do with status symbols. He ties it to a British economist who came up with the concept of positional goods. The real inequality comes from status rather than actual material goods in a way that 150 years ago the quality of life between a rich person and a poor person was really different or even 50 years ago and.
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