Your comments on the marginal careerist's increasing struggles are exactly what I was getting at, and I appreciate that you crystallized the finer points. I agr

Your comments on the marginal careerist's increasing struggles are exactly what I was getting at, and I appreciate that you crystallized the finer points. I agree with your comments on the rat race as well. The trouble is getting people to talk about this stuff. Sure, if you follow the media, there's drips and bits of chatter about how incomes are stagnant and cost of living is rising, but there's not really enough data on decisions that people made as a result of decreasing opportunity. How many people are forgoing college in favor of skills training? How many people are turning down offers to join new art galleries or other conventionally not-super-profitable ventures? I think the danger here is that 20 years from now we have a cultural lost era because we didn't have enough money to fund people to just sit around and be creative. It doesn't sound so bad, but it'd be quite empty.