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These soon-axe crack down Britain a bit trail of the free market ideals they used to hold dear.

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stuff that should just have been thrown away. Our well-meaning bin-feens making the problem

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Marie Lacont is a columnist and author of Escape, How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and

Survived the Internet. Hello Marie. Hello! You've just written about ambition and you say

you're not very ambitious. Is that true? It is, yes. And it's kind of something I had

an epiphany about a few months ago when I thought this is will. I feel like there's a kind

of hunger that I used to have that I don't have anymore. And I did a fair bit of soul-searching.

You know, what's happening to me? Am I depressed? Is this a bad thing? And then I was actually

turned out, I was always aiming for something quite reasonable in that. I wanted to rent quite

a nice one bedroom flat and I wanted to have a decent sort of day-to-day life and be able

to go on holiday, you know, about twice a year to Italy or Spain. And that was that. And

now I have that. And actually that's fine. And it's been quite striking because I think

I know a lot more traditionally ambitious people who have that in more and are still clearly

trying to get even more and more and more. Whereas I'm kind of like, yeah, guys, I'm

good now. Thank you so much. I'm happy. All good.

But I reckon you were just not in it for the money so much as some of the people, many

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