To make an analogy, long distance travel also has a checkered history over the past 300 years. Today, most people hop on a plane or a bus with little thought ab

To make an analogy, long distance travel also has a checkered history over the past 300 years. Today, most people hop on a plane or a bus with little thought about its safety, and manageable concerns about its arrival time. Likewise most of us expect our salary to hold steady in between payday and when we spend it, with manageable expectations about what it will be worth in six months.