The ‘Genius Tax’: Schopenhauer on Why Intelligent People Often Suffer More
There’s a curious paradox at the heart of human intelligence: the very capacity that should liberate us from suffering often becomes its most reliable generator. Arthur Schopenhauer, the 19th-century German philosopher who made pessimism intellectually respectable, spent considerable energy exploring why smart people seem to have drawn the short straw in life’s happiness lottery. His […]
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