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Peterson claims that in order to prevent cultural dissolution, states need an overarching goal such as economic growth or religious/transcendental goals and a fair amount of uniformity and hierarchical organization, which he also believes to be necessary for human well-being. | Peterson claims that in order to prevent cultural dissolution, states need an overarching goal such as economic growth or religious/transcendental goals and a fair amount of uniformity and hierarchical organization, which he also believes to be necessary for human well-being. | ||
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 ([[Neoliberalism|individualism]]). He sees no alternative to institutionalizing the replacement of bad things with better ones because the top of the hierarchy naturally tends to corrupt as it lacks corrective signals from above. He regards democracy and capitalism as institutions that determine value, distribution of goods and policy in a decentralized and hence less corruptible manner. A religious/transcendental goal can even give the top some guidance and make it less corruptible. | 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 ([[Neoliberalism|individualism]]). He sees no alternative to institutionalizing the replacement of bad things with better ones because the top of the hierarchy naturally tends to corrupt as it lacks corrective signals from above. He regards democracy and capitalism as institutions that determine value, distribution of goods and policy in a decentralized and hence less corruptible manner. A religious/transcendental goal can even give the top some guidance and make it less corruptible. He says people have innate tendencies that make them suitable for different positions in the hierarchy, e.g. progressives as pioneers and conservatives as people who keeping things running. | ||
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. | 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. | ||