HOW TO MAXIMIZE PRIDE — Modern thought and social science are grounded in the objective of maximizing “happiness”, “utility”, “utility of wealth”, “pleasure”, “experiences instead of possessions” or similar matters that are both selfish and over which you have little control. They turned out to be both mathematically and morally clumsy. Switch your objective to maximize “pride” and see how different –and more controllable — things become.

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