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200. Exploring the Pareto Principle

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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I Win the Coin Toss You Give Me a Dollar, You Win. I Give You a Dollar

The danger is that all the resources get funnalled to a tiny minority of people at the top, and a huge section of the population stacks up at zero. To blame that on the oppressive nature of a given system is to radically underestimate the complexity of the problem. No one actually knows how to effectively shovel resources from the minority that controls almost everything to the majority that has almost nothing in any consistent way. Andi it's a map of the manner in which the world manifests itself where human creative production is involved. As you start to produce and you're successful, the probability that you will continue to be successful or accelerate, increases as you're successful. So your progress through life looks like this

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