Sublime

Social workers were to become care managers, carrying out ‘needs-led’ assessments instead of people having to fit in with whatever traditional services were available. Their care managers would commission ‘packages of care’ from private and voluntary providers – a mixed economy of care.

The Losers like to feel good about their lives. They are the happiness seekers, rather than will-to-power players, and enter and exit reactively, in response to the meta-Darwinian trends in the economy. But they have no more loyalty to the firm than the Sociopaths. They do have a loyalty to individual people, and a commitment to finding fulfillment

In each country, every college course that a student took provided skills that could be applied in a specific field, as well as information about their match quality with the field itself. If students focused earlier, they compiled more skills that prepared them for gainful employment. If they sampled and focused later, they entered the job market