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200. Exploring the Pareto Principle

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Human Society Should Be Organized Along the Line of Lobsters

A part of your goal, if you want to take your place in the hierarchy properly, is to be a good person. The typical fortune 500 company only lasts 30 years and the typical family fortune only three generations. It's not that easy to keep a functional enterprise going. You have to be awake. And so no, it's not an oppressive patriarchy our culture, that's wrong. We're based on competence, fundamentally imperfect as that is. There aren't people who are foolish and blind and hire and fire based on attributes that have nothing to do with competence.

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