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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
A Brief History of the Middle Class
In eighteen hundred, the baby will die of the smallpox that is now causing him to cry. His sister will soon be the chattel of a drunken husband. Nobody in the family has ever seen a play, painted a ture or heard a piano. School is a few years of dull, latin taught, taught by a bigoted martinet at the vicarage. Each daughter owns two wool dresses, two linen shirts and one pair of shoes. Father's jacket cost him a month's wages, but is now infested lice. The children sleep, too to a bed, on straw mattresses on the floor. As for the bird outside the window, to mor
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