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200. Exploring the Pareto Principle
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Tower of Babel Is a Warning
If resources accrue unfairly to a small minority of people, there's a natural law like element that has to be dealt with from a social perspective. If the inequality becomes too extreme, then the whole system will stabilize. And so you can have an intelligent discussion about how to mitigate the effects of the transfer of creative production into the hands of a small number of people. The story of the tower of babel is about warning against the expansion of a system until it encompasses everything. It's a warning against totalitarian presumption. We figured out how to not have zero sum games a very, very long time ago. This statement was reversed. It should have been so big it had to fail. I
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