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Parenting through the climate crisis
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Importance of Comparative Advantage
There's just, there are all these tensions you're exploring in the book. It is a hyper-competitive world in lots of ways and people who have inbuilt advantages tend to do better than those who don't. And while I know participating in this sham meritocracy perpetuates the whole thing, I also don't want my kids to fall behind and no one else does either. But if you're trying to give your children that kind of competitive advantage, aren't you also trying to sort of push other children back by comparison? So I think we can try and think about it by asking ourselves what does my child really need for a decent human life? What are the really essential things for
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