Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Definitely. Definitely. Yeah.

Definitely. Definitely. Yeah.

It just, it bemuses me that... Well, and there's no classes even on the relationship between character and economic progress. I read a great book once called The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and it was a study of... Really, it's a study of the role that honesty and trust plays in the generation of wealth. Japan's a really good example of that. Japan has like no natural resources.

It just, it bemuses me that... Well, and there's no classes even on the relationship between character and economic progress. I read a great book once called The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and it was a study of... Really, it's a study of the role that honesty and trust plays in the generation of wealth. Japan's a really good example of that. Japan has like no natural resources.

And it's an extremely wealthy country. Why? Well, it's a high-trust society. No one steals. And envy is looked down upon, right? Ambition is fostered, and so is conscientious hard work, and maybe even to a fault in Japan. But it's a high-trust society. In high-trust societies, everybody can become rich, but it means that everybody has to conduct themselves ethically.

And it's an extremely wealthy country. Why? Well, it's a high-trust society. No one steals. And envy is looked down upon, right? Ambition is fostered, and so is conscientious hard work, and maybe even to a fault in Japan. But it's a high-trust society. In high-trust societies, everybody can become rich, but it means that everybody has to conduct themselves ethically.

And that is a precondition for anything approximating a, I hate to use the word sustainable, but an iterable capitalism. Because people, the leftist critics in particular, like to think of capitalism as a rapacious enterprise. But that's a... Well, first of all, compared to what? You know, dynastic poverty? Because that's generally the alternative. And it's not like that's not rapacious.

And that is a precondition for anything approximating a, I hate to use the word sustainable, but an iterable capitalism. Because people, the leftist critics in particular, like to think of capitalism as a rapacious enterprise. But that's a... Well, first of all, compared to what? You know, dynastic poverty? Because that's generally the alternative. And it's not like that's not rapacious.

And most enterprises that orient themselves too much to the short term fail. So... It's important to teach people, we do this so badly. I mean, even the word capitalism isn't one that should be used because really what we're talking about is free exchange of goods and services. I mean, who's opposed to that? Do you want to be able to have a different job? You want to have some choice?

And most enterprises that orient themselves too much to the short term fail. So... It's important to teach people, we do this so badly. I mean, even the word capitalism isn't one that should be used because really what we're talking about is free exchange of goods and services. I mean, who's opposed to that? Do you want to be able to have a different job? You want to have some choice?

Do you want to actually be able to own the things you purchase? Do you want to be able to purchase things? Do you want to have a choice? Who says no to that? No one. But no one, young people in particular, aren't taught that, well, that's the capitalism that you're criticizing. The fact you get to own something and move your labor voluntarily from one place to another.

Do you want to actually be able to own the things you purchase? Do you want to be able to purchase things? Do you want to have a choice? Who says no to that? No one. But no one, young people in particular, aren't taught that, well, that's the capitalism that you're criticizing. The fact you get to own something and move your labor voluntarily from one place to another.

You're going to oppose that, are you? In favor of what? Of top-down authoritarian planning, where everyone starves miserably. And, you know, a lot of that's been removed from the world since the wall fell, and people are much richer than they've ever been, and not in an entirely pathological manner. So, yeah, there's lots of reason to be optimistic.

You're going to oppose that, are you? In favor of what? Of top-down authoritarian planning, where everyone starves miserably. And, you know, a lot of that's been removed from the world since the wall fell, and people are much richer than they've ever been, and not in an entirely pathological manner. So, yeah, there's lots of reason to be optimistic.

I actually think we're on the cusp of something like an ethical revolution, because I tried to outline in this new book is that I think that We're at the point where our scientific discoveries in fields like cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary biology can be seen to dovetail with our traditional understanding of high-order ethics. That's partly the case I tried to make in this book.

I actually think we're on the cusp of something like an ethical revolution, because I tried to outline in this new book is that I think that We're at the point where our scientific discoveries in fields like cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary biology can be seen to dovetail with our traditional understanding of high-order ethics. That's partly the case I tried to make in this book.

And it's certainly the ethos that saturates the course offerings in Peterson Academy. You know, we're trying to encourage people to take maximal responsibility, to have an adventurous life, to pursue an ethical pathway, to tell the truth, and to educate themselves broadly and aesthetically. And so far... it seems to be working, you know, people are pleased with the, I'm so excited about this.

And it's certainly the ethos that saturates the course offerings in Peterson Academy. You know, we're trying to encourage people to take maximal responsibility, to have an adventurous life, to pursue an ethical pathway, to tell the truth, and to educate themselves broadly and aesthetically. And so far... it seems to be working, you know, people are pleased with the, I'm so excited about this.

I mean, I got to hand it to my daughter and her husband. Um, they've done a bang up job of, of putting this together. The courses are really beautiful. They're very, They're compelling. They're very well produced. And the technology works like a charm. And the social media network so far is behaving exactly how we hoped it would behave when we were feeling particularly optimistic.

I mean, I got to hand it to my daughter and her husband. Um, they've done a bang up job of, of putting this together. The courses are really beautiful. They're very, They're compelling. They're very well produced. And the technology works like a charm. And the social media network so far is behaving exactly how we hoped it would behave when we were feeling particularly optimistic.