Something for Nothing
The All-Consuming Desire That Turns the American Dream into a Social Nightmare
Tracy's odd one out: a broadside against the wish for unearned reward, and the least self-help-shaped book he wrote.
The odd book in Tracy’s catalogue, and the least like self-help. It argues that a great deal of human behaviour, from crime and politics to office manoeuvring, is driven by the wish to get something without earning it, and that societies decay as that wish becomes easier to satisfy. Polemical where the rest of his work is practical, and closer to social criticism than to a programme for the reader.
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