Saturday, June 20, 2015

Aspirational parents condemn their children to a desperate, joyless life | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

Aspirational parents condemn their children to a desperate, joyless life | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian:



"In 1653, Izaak Walton described in the Compleat Angler the fate of “poor-rich men”, who “spend all their time first in getting, and next in anxious care to keep it; men that are condemned to be rich, and then always busie or discontented”. Today this fate is confused with salvation.

Finish your homework, pass your exams, spend your 20s avoiding daylight, and you too could live like the elite. But who in their right mind would want to?"



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