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Steven Pinker and David Runciman on Optimism, Enlightenment and Progress PART 2

Intelligence Squared

CHAPTER

The Global Story of Inequality

There's a huge divergence between people's personal experience and their opinions on the society that they live in. The global story about inequality, we're living in a much more globally equal world. Are there politicians skillful enough to make the global case that this is broadly a good news story? It's easy to exaggerate the effect of personal experience.

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