I am remarkably non-broke for a graduate student that went to grad school straight out of undergraduate. I was still amazed when my advisor whipped out his cred

I am remarkably non-broke for a graduate student that went to grad school straight out of undergraduate. I was still amazed when my advisor whipped out his credit card to pay for Pandora One practically on a whim. On the other hand, I have learned the value of going out to eat instead of cooking. Tangible goods have value. Pain avoidance has value. Intangible entertainment that is consumed at home has so many free substitutes that we're only paying for the marginal entertainment. I don't think this is news -- we didn't just grow up with Napster, but also DVD libraries, romsets, and hackable consumer electronics. I wonder what proportion of young people are aware of someone with substantial romsets for the NES or SNES? Finally, my social network exists outside of its computer representation, and transcribing the personal data from Facebook to the next system is embarassingly parallel. Of COURSE there's no reason for loyalty.