We are really, really sorry that this is the way the world works—but part of coherency is dealing with reality. So it is time for another Accept. It’s time to blow up this somewhat romantic idea about work and remember that this hasn’t always been what people expected. For most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, people aspired to a simpler idea, where you make money one place and have a life in another. This is and has always been a valid way to live, and we suspect that it’s the way most people live today. They just don’t admit it—and that’s part of what makes them unhappy.
