Crabs in a Bucket: Reframing the Problem in a World That Keeps Pulling Us Down

Living does strange things to a person.

For much of the last two months, my life was consumed by helping a family in crisis. That situation worked out better than I’d expected—César and his boys now own their modest apartment, César has a job he’ll return to after a few more days of recovery from an emergency appendectomy, his youngest is getting through…