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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 and misaligned players get outcompeted and destroyed by better ones. | 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 and misaligned players get outcompeted and 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 prone to corruption because it admits too much power to centralized institutions enforcing these rules, and creates adverse incentives that greedy people are inevitably going to exploit, | 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 prone to corruption because it admits too much power to centralized institutions enforcing these rules, and creates adverse incentives that greedy people are inevitably going to exploit, unhindered due to 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 accuses Marxism of resentfulness, claiming that Marxists tend to ignore the fact that rich people are not much happier, rather the progress towards wealth, is what provides meaning. Marxists, he says, are primarily driven by a hatred for the rich. | 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 accuses Marxism of resentfulness, claiming that Marxists tend to ignore the fact that rich people are not much happier, rather the progress towards wealth, is what provides meaning. Marxists, he says, are primarily driven by a hatred for the rich. | ||