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When personal gains come at others' expense

I got a huge bonus this year but my company also laid off a bunch of people, and enjoying my success feels like celebrating other people's misery.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Individual economic wins within zero-sum systems create survivor guilt and moral complexity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Identity and money — what wealth does to selfhood?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.