A Case for Joy in a Monetized World
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” ~William Bruce Cameron My gardener and I were talking the other day—his English broken, my Spanish worse—but we found a way to connect.
He told me about his eight-year-old son, a bright, joyful kid who loves baseball. The boy wants to play. His mother wants him in tutoring.
And somewhere in that gap, a bigger question emerged: what matters more—discipline or joy? I didn’t plan to give advice, but it came out anyway. “Let him play ball,” I said. “Let him be part of a team, fall in love with something, feel what it’s like to give yourself to a game you care about.” Maybe there’s room for both—tutoring on weekends or part-time.
But I couldn’t shake the feeling that too often, we push kids toward what’s useful before they know what they love. That conversation stayed with me because it reflects something bigger and more troubling: almost everything in life now feels monetized. From birth to death, we are priced and processed.
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