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DESERVE
Why We Keep Asking the Wrong Question
A closer look at the question hidden inside what people say they deserve.
About the Book
DESERVE begins with a familiar sentence: I deserve better. It asks what standard sits behind that claim, who is supposed to settle the account, and why the word moves so easily between ordinary disappointments, justice, illness, work, and loss.
Drawing on medicine, business, incarceration, and everyday life, the book examines the arithmetic people carry about fairness without pretending that kindness, pain, responsibility, and judgment can be reduced to one simple verdict.