It’s Their Fault

A great Economist article.
I think in a couple decades, though, we’ll be saying the endowment effect is obsolete. It seems like only a matter of time: at least when it comes to media, we are moving confidently and happily from “possessing” media (CDs, DVDs, etc.) to having universal access to a sort of shared [...]

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A great post from from the Daily Kos:
Perhaps…what I find most infuriating about pieces that call out Millenials for their perceived inaction [is] that there is no corresponding chastisement of the Baby Boomers or the millions of other Americans who also have the ability to engage in “real world” activism.
The post goes on to explain [...]

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Last week, the New York Times put out a popularly e-mailed piece about students choosing big-money corporate jobs instead of service or artistic jobs. Too many students, they say, are lured by the big paycheck.
On other campuses as well, officials are questioning with new vigor whether too many top students who might otherwise [...]

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Dennis Prager today has an pretty annoying column in which he says that youth supported movements are often naive and narcissistic (based on just two examples from the same time period), and uses that observation to proclaim that he therefore distrusts Obama. While his leap from distrusting historical youth movements to distrusting Obama’s [...]

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There has been much discussion about the rising cost of healthcare in the United States, and there will continue to be as the election heats up. While many of the costs of our poor healthcare system have been discussed by candidates and special interest groups - especially the fact that young graduates [...]

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“Follow your bliss.”
It’s a classic boomer rallying cry - if you believe in it, you can do it; if it comes to you, you deserve it - and it’s a theory continues to massage Boomer egos today, often in bestselling form.
Joseph Campbell, of course, was the American mystic and writer who delivered this somewhat vague message of salvation [...]

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Okay, the term may be a bit much, but the facts are pretty shocking. According to CNN,
Relying on Census Bureau figures…after adjusting for inflation, men in their 30s in 2004 had a median income of about $35,000 per year, for a 12 percent drop compared with $40,000 per year for men in the same [...]

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