The Commonality of Fairness in Equity Aversion

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I would agree that in every culture, we don't always expect equal treatment. But is there some sort of underlying commonality to the different things that would count as fair? Or is that just not, or is fair not the right way to look at it? Should we just look at it in terms of broader norms? Yeah. So if fair doesn't mean equality and it means whatever it is other people think you should do, then I think we can have immense variation in that.

Joe Henrich joins the podcast to tell us that we know nothing about his work and that how we got to teach a class in anything is absolutely amazing. We continue our discussion from Episode 17 about his critique of the social and behavioral sciences in "The Weirdest People in the World" and his work in small scale societies on fairness norms. We also talk about the weird American obsession with happiness, monkeys throwing cucumbers, and why some people reject "hyper-fair" offers of more than the half the pot in the ultimatum games.

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