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#789 Kieran Setiya - Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

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The History of Achievement Success

Success is usually measured in terms of how much money you earn. I mean there are many many many extremely valuable things and activities that people can participate in that do not involve earning any money whatsoever. These are cases where sort of philosophically reflecting on the structure of your life can help to push back against the social imposition of Single-minded economic standards of success. Ideally what we would want I think here is a shift in how society is organized so that money is less central, Shift in the way we think about education and what we're educating people for.

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