Episode 9.03: Prosperity as something we think we understand. But do we? Does it cause our problems?

World does not like us to challenge its most cherished assumptions. And one of its most cherished assumptions is that we all know, and it knows what prosperity amounts to. This supposition persuades us to work in pursuit of the earning power necessary to pursue that very notion of prosperity. But suppose the notion itself is mistaken, and even fraudulent, perhaps even a or the major cause of most human misery. Might we be spending our lives in pursuit of the means to acquire a prosperity that is itself an illusion?