And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

My name is Freddie DeBoer, and I recently published a piece for Persuasion titled

Why so Many Elites Feel Like Losers.

The purpose of my piece is to answer a fundamental question.

Why do so many people who have outside trappings of success,

college degrees, often white collar work,

and various different forms of flourishing and under meritocracy still feel like they're losers.

Why do they still feel a deep sense of being unsatisfied?

In the piece I argue that a lot of this stems from the fact that we've elevated creative

careers in our society to be seen as the pinnacle of success and as the only true way to make something that is real, that is valuable, and that is lasting.

Unfortunately, as I demonstrate in the piece, making it in creative industries is no easier now than it's ever been,

that while the internet has democratized the tools with which we can make things creatively,

it is not democratized creative success.

I argue in the piece that fundamentally will never have the carrying capacity for as many people who want to have creative careers to have them.

And that instead we should first teach people to be satisfied with having day jobs which secure

them their basic material security and then to create on the side in a way that they can provide them with fulfillment and potentially with a little bit of extra cash.

I also argue that writ large, our society has a problem with a lack of clear and definable paths to success that we have more ways to be

a loser than to be a winner and that we all need to take part in broadening our definition of what it means to be a successful

human being.

I hope that you'll take a look and give me some feedback.

I appreciate your time.

Freddie DeBoer's piece called Why So Many Elites Feel Like Loes

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