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176. Minouche Shafik — What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society

The Michael Shermer Show

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i think more important than the yo, i think the opening line of the book is, society is everything. People think they might be self made, but all of us are the product of the schools we happen to go to and the place where we happen to be born. The huge element of luck in all our lives isis, is important, and we have to acknowledge that. So ts this kind of tension between th conservatives tend to have a just world theory. They know, they're not created, they don't work hard. And yet, in reality, it's not that simple, not at all.

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