His new book, "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work", takes on that odd thing that most of us do for so many of our waking hours on Earth.It would be easy to accuse Mr de Botton, who describes his new volume as "a hymn to the intelligence, peculiarity, beauty and horror of the modern workplace", of firing cheap shots.
Avoid pools, fires, cheap stoves, and other things that can cause death.
It's thought that if they bring dates to their sister's upcoming destination wedding, it will keep them focused, sober and less likely to set anyone on fire with cheap fireworks.
Opponents might argue that large urban governments achieve economies of scale, that bigger cities can, for instance, provide fire protection cheaper on a per-person basis.
A mild reform of employment law this year made firing workers cheaper, but it still costs a lot more than in other countries.Yet Mr Sebastián's analysis is intriguing.
At first, the news that came in on the morning radio shows seemed tragic but comprehensible: These were deaths that could have been prevented, investigators reminded the public, with a simple, cheap fire detector.
Whether "Sunken Garden" represents a brave new world for an art form sometimes derided — wrongly — as antiquated and irrelevant is debatable: one did not leave the Barbican savoring the prospect of Fafner's breathing fire into the cheap seats in Wagner's "Siegfried".
"What we're going to need now is co-operation between the commonwealth government and the state government, the administrator, and most importantly Arrium's creditors, to come up with a deal so that Arrium can eventually trade out of trouble rather than enter into a cheap fire sale," he said.
Once considered "cheap fire water", the agave-based alcohol is now one of the country's most popular liquors.
"But if they do not use fire, which is cheap, then what are they going to use - strimmers?
