Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety, Success, and Meritocracy

HN recommends it as an illuminating, eye-opening long-form take on status, luck and how we judge the successful and unsuccessful.

Alain de Botton's 2004 documentary based on his book Status Anxiety, running over two hours. It asks why people in rich societies are still unhappy, and examines how worries about success, snobbery and meritocracy drive that anxiety.