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Peterson warns enforcing equality by a shaming culture (collectivism) is highly corruptible because it admits too much power to centralized institutions enforcing these rules, and creates adverse incentives. | Peterson warns enforcing equality by a shaming culture (collectivism) is highly corruptible because it admits too much power to centralized institutions enforcing these rules, and creates adverse incentives. | ||
He claims the goal of | He claims the goal of perfect equality is nonsensical anyhow as people are inherently unequal ([[biological essentialism]]). | ||
Preventing poverty to avoid [[beta uprising|social unrest]] is a more sensible goal, especially since hierarchies/social stratification yield a strong incentive for status ascension and thus cooperation as people end up contributing to ascend in status. | Preventing poverty to avoid [[beta uprising|social unrest]] is a more sensible goal, especially since hierarchies/social stratification yield a strong incentive for status ascension and thus cooperation as people end up contributing to ascend in status. | ||
Hence, one should rather strive for ''equal opportunity'' than ''equal outcome''. | Hence, one should rather strive for ''equal opportunity'' than ''equal outcome''. | ||