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To avoid corrupt hierarchies, he claims, it is necessary to keep them fairly flat (decentralization) and use a regulated free market such that the best players prevail and inefficient/corrupt players get outcompeted/destroyed by better ones.

Peterson warns that major attempts to enforce equality in opposition to the competitive process of the free market enforced by shaming culture (collectivism) is highly corruptible and destructive, especially because it admits too much power to centralized administrative institutions enforcing these rules, and creates various adverse incentives that greedy people are inevitably going to exploit and are unhindered to do so with the lack of free market competitiveness. He claims the goal of perfect equality is also nonsensical as people are inherently unequal. He draws analogies to communist systems that he sees to have repeatedly failed in this manner. Similar to [[Steven Pinker]], he reminds of the fact that current capitalist systems have reduced poverty more than any other economic systems.

He regards country borders and social norms as fundamental for a functioning state, but admits there also needs to be some adaptability and flow of information (free speech, ''classical liberalism'') to avoid totalitarianism and warfare. He claims it is naive to assume there is a definite set of rules for ideally structuring a state (ideology), except for leaving up the determination of the rules to a competitive, democratic process, a free market of ideas. For this reason, men need to be socialized to be competitive and dependable, in addition to be able to satisfy women's hypergamous preferences and to be charmed against the natural occurrence of [[asshole|psychopaths]]. He also sees cultural norms that encourage telling the truth and admitting primacy to the individual as essential for social stability and as main reason for the success of Western civilization as this enables cooperation and economic growth. For this reason, Peterson is wary of automation, fearing it could lead to diminishing value of the individual being outcompeted by machines.

This concludes the secular side. Peterson also has a series of esoteric views about so called ''Jungian archetypes'' that he believes to have emerged in human folklore and religious scripture, that exist across time and space and have been formed by gene-meme co-evolution to capture deeper truths about human nature than a modern atheist would assume. Peterson sees for example the primacy of the individual in Western culture with an emphasis on honesty to have emerged in such a cultural evolutionary process. He sees this framework of human culture as fundamental for the construction of ''any'' meaning, and uses it to justify the importance of traditions, concluding the [[blackpill]] that culturally evolved memes protect us from the unknown ways of organizing society that could potentially throw it into chaos by mechanisms that are too complex for us to figure out otherwise: