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Matt Ridley on the Evolution of Everything

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The Evolution of Egalitarianism and Meritocracy

I wonder if the more fundamental difference actually is between Jesus and Nietzsche, i.e. egalitarianism and meritocracy. And I'm curious what evolution has to say about those tensions or how those two distinct sort of ideas have evolved. The great theme of human history is becoming more specialized in what we produce but more diversified in what we consume. So a subsistence farmer in Madagascar is growing rice and eating rice and not doing a heck of a lot else,. whereas once you get very specialized, you do one very, very narrow thing for eight hours a day, you call it a job. For me, the Smith Darwin Hayek worldview undermines the whole basis of both Christianity and Burkian and

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