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Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—and What We Can Do About It
Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—and What We Can Do About It

Here’s the rub, and why Never Enough can tackle a relatively tangled issue while letting everyone walk away feeling pretty good: there is simply no exploration of the social structure that landed us here, no history of higher education or trace mention of Veblen and the rise of secondary education as acceptable conspicuous consumption for a leisure class breed under the auspices of American Exceptionalism and grounded in a puritanical faith that hard work begets wealth as a sign from Christian God that you are righteous. 

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David Dinaburgnon-fiction, academics, childcare