You Are Not What You Earn

Published on September 5, 2017
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“A fundamental belief of the modern world, which explains a lot of our anxiety around failure, is that we are what we earn.
When we say this, we mean something very particular: not just that it’s nice to have a lot of money but that our income is the source of information, crucial, decisive information, about our character, our intelligence, our moral fibre: in short, money is the key indicator of our worth in human and not just financial terms. The more money we make, the more we deserve to exist…”

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