I'm really enjoying Status Anxiety, which in the 82 pages I have read so far, is a cheerful romp through ideas of status by looking at the writings of rich Europeans. Sometimes I wish he'd point out the holes in their arguments a bit more forcefully, as to me it is obvious that they are excluding women, blacks and Indians from their everyone is equal treatises, and probably obvious to de Botton, but given the wide spread cluelessness on the limitations of the viewpoints of dead Europeans, a bit more discussion may be needed. Although he might pick it up later.