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Progress, Despite Everything

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The Perverse Situation of Inequality

"We really can improve the world if we set our minds to do it," he says. "The universe not only doesn't care about us, but has a number of features that are constantly pushing back at us." The poor are getting richer, despite the fact of inequality, according to his research. If you get people's income up to about $5,000 a year in terms of gross domestic product, they actually start to care about the environment and less worried about dying instantly.

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