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There's often a conflict between effective and practical advice to individuals on the one hand and dealing with broader social issues on the other.

I might believe that cleaners should be paid more and that there's nothing wrong with manual labour, that doesn't mean I'd tell my children - living in today's world as it is - that there's no reason they should prefer a job as a cleaner to a job as a lawyer or an engineer.

Unfathomable as it may sound, one can adjust one's sails and still bitch about how unfair it is.

Something I never implied couldn't be done, but which others do, by virtue of attacking any offering such practical advice.

It would be quite a different world we live in if everyone thought that way.