Would a society of moral saints be a worse place to live? | Oliver Burkeman

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We shouldn’t make every decision about how to use our time, or spend our money, on ethical grounds alone

In 2000, in his book Bobos In Paradise, the US commentator David Brooks noticed that the emerging class he called “bourgeois bohemians” had a particular fondness for rough textures: slate kitchen counters, coarse rugs, stone fireplaces, and so on. Where their parents prized smooth surfaces, these countercultural capitalists yearned to go back to the land. Brooks grasped, too, that they saw something moral in their choices.

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