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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Division of Labour in the Production of Ideas

We do sort of go backwards with respect to specialization and exchange. During bad recession, in the depression, a lot of american families found they were keeping a chicken and growing their own vegetables again. You start to do more for yourself and have less to consume over all. If you only could consume what you produce, it would be a pretty miserable life. And i wrote to him and said, this is a fantastic idea. Can you tell me how you came up with the idea and where you got it from? I just ouknow, but i thought i got it from you. Well, and ideas can be implicit as well as explicit. So it's not always obvious what ideas

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