most people, including myself, have a deep desire to work on things that matter to them and bring forth what is inside them. It is only when we cling to the logic of the default

All accomplishments came at someone else's expense. The corporate world fuels this non-zero-sum anxiety: if others are working late in the office, you convince yourself to stay late too. When others get promoted “ahead” of you, you feel insecure and envious because you think it means you aren’t good enough. But when you find a path that is uniquely

people make career decisions based on their passions, then it’s easy to attribute wage disparities to individual choices rather than acknowledge the reality of structural injustice. This type of “choice washing” perpetuates the idea that income inequality can be overcome just by working hard rather than through systemic reform.

The endless pursuit of dream jobs is at least partially to blame, according to Cech. If we believe that