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Egalitarianism, sports and rewarding failure
In a 2007 study published in Nature, titled, “Egalitarian Motives in Humans,” a modern and disturbing view of egalitarianism demonstrated by American college students showed that highly educated people are willing to pay, even collude with one another to reduce inequality.
Egalitarianism, sports and rewarding failure
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