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E10: Sam Harris on Populism, Polarization, and His Beef with the Left and the Right

"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg

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The Importance of Redistribution in Wealth Inequality

"We don't want perfect equality, right? Maybe there's an argument to be had that some amount of inequality is actually optimal," he says. "Some form of redistribution has to be valid once you get too much of a concentration of wealth in which is too much wealth inequality in any society." He adds: "If you can't feel compassion for people who are not as lucky as you are, at least you could feel some, you know, wise sense of self preservation"

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