10 Years Of “Owning Nothing and Being Happy”—Please Rate Your Happiness

Notes on living in an economy where you finance your spaghetti longer than you eat them.

There is a particular cruelty in being told to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when someone has already stolen your boots, and an even deeper cruelty in being lectured about hard work by the generation that bought houses on a single income and retired with pensions while you work three jobs and sleep in your childhood bedroom at twenty-six.

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