Praise for Luckpilled:

"From overpunishment of criminals to blaming the marginalized for their situation, the failure to recognize the centrality of sheer luck to outcomes is central to policy failures and feelings of personal inadequacy (as well as smugness at success). Aaron Rabinowitz’s Luckpilled is an important corrective to our complacency about success and failure."

- Neil Levy, author of Hard Luck: How Luck Undermines Free Will and Moral Responsibility

“This is a bold, original, and deeply thought-provoking book. By exposing the hidden role of luck in our moral, political, and educational lives, Luckpilled challenges some of our most cherished assumptions and offers a compelling vision of a more just society.”

- Gregg Caruso, director of the Patrick J. Waide Center for Applied Ethics, Fairfield University

What if everything we experience comes down to luck? Humans have struggled with anxiety about the pervasiveness of luck since the concept first arose in ancient societies, and attempts to address the problem have shaped the modern world. Yet the problem of luck has persisted because resolving it requires letting go of a tenacious group of deeply rooted illusions centered on the need to feel that people mostly get what they deserve.

In Luckpilled: Compassion, Justice, and Hope in a World Nobody Deserves, Aaron Rabinowitz combines cutting-edge work on the philosophy, psychology, politics, and pedagogy of luck to argue that we are better off embracing the pervasiveness of luck and abandoning harmful illusions that preserve an unjust status-quo. Using the luckpilling techniques offered in this book can help readers to cultivate compassion, empathy, gratitude and humility, as well as a stronger connection to activities they find meaningful.