Alain takes on a tour of some of the causes of Status Anxiety, mainly focussing on our need for acceptance within our social group and how money has changed the way that acceptance is perceived, and on the ways to think about it such that you can control it rather than it controlling you. This is an interesting book providing a light read containing some food for thought about how we view ourselves within a modern society, but, as with most philosophy books, he doesn’t really seem to say anything that we don’t know already.
(audio book)