Ross Otto
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The Last Show with David Cooper · Can You Be Taught to Reject an Unfair Advantage? · 24 Feb 2026
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If you're handed a bigger slice of the pie, more money, for example, for no good reason, do you question the system or do you grab a fork and eat it up?
Can we learn to reject unfair advantages just by watching other people do it?
Well, that is precisely the question that Ross Otto's research tries to attack.
He's a psychology professor at McGill University.
Ross, welcome to the show.
So advantageous inequality, what exactly is it?
Let's start there.
And why are most of us totally fine with it when we're the ones getting the advantage?
Well, that's comforting to know that I guess most people reject these extremely unfair outcomes.
Some of us, I assume, accept them, though.
A little less comforting, I suppose, about humanity on that one.
Someone once told me, and I'm not a historian, I'm not even sure it's true, but a lot of the people who spearheaded the French Revolution were the sons and daughters of the aristocracy, which means they were the ones with the larger slice still fighting against an unjust system.
I don't even know if it's true, but I've been told it is by someone who studied history.
This sort of applies for money.
Like it can apply to salary.
It can apply to like unfair advantage at birth.
Like if you're the son or daughter of a millionaire, billionaire kind of thing.
Why does studying apples really simplify the problem?
Can we make, can we infer things about like societal inequality from this apple test?
Interesting.
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