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163. Is Everything Better Than We Think? | Bjorn Lomborg

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Current Economic System Isn't Fatally Flawful and Works

You have to believe that the current economic system isn't fatally flawed and basically works, or at least works better than any hypothetical alternatives. As it runs, as it runs, it tends to lift people out of absolute poverty. And there seems to be really good evidence for that, especially across, well, since the industrial revolution. But its really taken off in the last 30 years. May be, non coincidentally with the demise of communism,. which was competing, you know, a, competing a economic theoryand produced all sorts of bad economic decisions. It's not news because it happened every day. We don't get these good news, and i think we need to get them in order

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