Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 1963 |
Geburtsort | Buckinghamshire, England |
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Beschreibung | Toby Daniel Moorsom Young (geboren am 17. Oktober 1963) ist ein britischer Gesellschaftskommentator. Er ist Gründer und Direktor der Free Speech Union, Mitherausgeber von The Spectator und ehemaliger Mitherausgeber von Quillette. |
In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.
I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
