What The Landscape Tells You About Your Worth

Or the Problem of General Shittiness

Photo by Matt Hoffman on Unsplash

Perhaps you remember that old dirty joke about the three great lies. The first: “The check’s in the mail.” The second: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” (If you don’t already know the third one, I’ll let you google it.)

I’ve been thinking a lot about the second of those phrases, and why Americans, in partic…