Why Men Are at the Top of Society (and the bottom) - Roy Baumeister - #1075

Mar 23, 2026 · 1h 30m · YouTube

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0:00You say that cultures flourish by exploiting men.

0:03What's that mean?

0:05Well, there are multiple aspects to it.

0:10But first of all, men are more expendable than women, probably for basic biological reasons.

0:18If a small group loses half its men, the next generation could still be full-size, loses half its women.

0:24It'll be a long time to recover.

0:27So it takes, it risks men, puts men to work to produce things.

0:34Most of the structures of society are really created by men.

0:43I was talking to Carol Hooven at Harvard, and she said there was a feminist who had an epiphany at one point.

0:49She was looking out the window and said, the whole world was built by men.

0:55Look at the buildings and the roads and the cars and all those things.

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