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Inequality: Power, Status, and Social Distribution
Why does equality recede the harder we pursue it?
Completed · 25 episodes
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Xie Jing: Why Does Equality Recede the More We Pursue It? 1. Inequality Has Not Disappeared—Has It Merely Shifted? 2. Who Enables the Privileged? 3. Disenchanting Rousseau: What Are Thinkers in Intellectual History Really Like? 4. Defining Inequality: Does Equal Rights Mean Equality? 5. The Truth about Meritocracy: Why Does Hard Work Fail to Bring Success? 6. Can a Seemingly Fair Uniform Standard Also Be a Privilege? 7. How Did “Nature” Become a Basis for Politics? 8. Work, Love, and War: Human Nature or Social Construction? 9. Is Women's “Love” an Ideology Serving Patriarchy? 10. Is Exclusive Love Really the Transformation of Love and Sex into Property? 11. Why Does Locke's Defense of Property Rights Fail? 12. Must We Work for Wages in Order to Survive? 13. The Greed beneath the Idea of Progress: A Calculation That Only Adds 14. Rousseau's Subtraction: Illness, Hypocrisy, and Servitude 15. GDP: A “Collective Lie” Pretending That Wealth Is Growing? 16. The Social Contract: Ideal, Fact, or Myth? 17. Is the Misogyny behind The Social Contract Merely a Limitation of Its Time? 18. Is a Rational World Where Every Relationship Is Contractualized Really Desirable? 19. When Equality Becomes a Tool: Escaping the Trap of Equality for Equality's Sake 20. The Personal Is Political: How Can We Act? (Finale) Bonus | Xie Jing × Yang Zhao × dy: Can We Still Be Human in the Age of Runaway AI? Q&A Collection | Seeing Where the Problem Lies Is the Beginning of Action Bonus | Xie Jing × Wang Xingkun × dy: From White-Collar Workers to Wage Slaves and “Beasts of Burden”—Self-Debasement or Conceptual Progress? Xie Jing: The Question Is Not Efficiency, but What We Actually Want | Vistopia World Book Day Special