"We Become Cardboard Cutouts Of Real People."

If we all know that conventional metrics and ideas around white-collar, first-world, hetero-normative "success" can be toxic, why do we chase them?

Good article here from Ron Carucci, who I believe works at some company called Navalent. He might have founded it. I dunno, sue me. I’ll hit you with a pull quote and a screenshot herein. The screenshot is first; it’s not from Carucci, but he borrowed from this Arthur Brooks article in The Atlantic: