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thedailyarticle.com. That's the daily article.com. Now let's discuss the central question in

today's daily article. Can hard work by happiness? Daniel Markovitz is a professor at Yale

Law School with previous study at the London

School of Economics, Oxford, Harvard, and Yale Law School. In the Atlantic, he pulls back the

curtain on one of America's most destructive myths. The harder you work, the happier you'll be.

The dictionary defines meritocracy as a system in which the talented

are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement. According to Markovitz,

this system has become highly restrictive in America, producing wealthy parents who produce privileged

children. For instance, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale collectively enroll more

students from households in the top 1% of income distribution than from households in the bottom

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