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E-PrinceWhen I got my acceptance letter from Princeton on April 3, 2006, I thought my life was made. I don’t know if you’ve seen “The Firm” with Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman, but I thought it was going ...(back to the article)
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even though this topic has been addressed many a time and is bordering on cliche now... eric - thanks for voicing what a lot of us are thinking but not saying. also, nice use of your psych education with "pluralistic ignorance."
Very very true. Watch this space for the next flame war about Obama, Austrian School economics, and hiring insights from Princeton parents.
Yeah, before the trolls hit this article, I just want to give it its proper due. A little colloquial at times, but captures exactly what tons of seniors are thinking about, and says it far more openly than any would really care to admit. It's the edge to this one that makes it stand out from the other articles that address the same, trite topic.
a little colloquial - my bad
Another wonderful result of government interventionism (too many college subsidies producing a glut of overqualified people and minimum wage laws to create institutional unemployment).
I don't think these fascist programs started under Obama, sheep called balance.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential
Read the book THE TRAP: SELLING OUT TO STAY AFLOAT IN WINNER-TAKE-ALL AMERICA by Daniel Brook. You're not the only one with reason to worry about trading in your ideals for a living wage.
@ November 08
Is "focusing your life solely on making a buck" necessarily mutually exclusive from "hitch[ing] your wagon to something larger than yourself"? Aren't corporations by definition larger than oneself?
When I got my acceptance letter in December '05 I thought the plan was pretty clear:
have 4 years of fun, go make bank, marry, mate, and die. All I gotta do now is work out the details...
"Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential"
In a free market, making money is how you "hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself". In a free market, if you make money, it means you have provided at least that much worth of goods and services to others. If you make money that you don't spend, it means you have effectively given away goods and services.