Creating the American Dream

[UCGal]

I heard part of it when I was driving this morning. I thought it was interesting that the biggest factor in how you’ll do financially, was how your parents did financially. More than education.

It also talked about the gap between the wealthy and the non-wealthy getting wider and wider as more money flows to the wealthy.

The part I heard was very interesting.

[jpinpb]

I found interesting how the debt formed historically and the relation to perceived wealth. UCGal, when you get a chance, listen to the rest of it online. I was sucked into it and even though I had to leave, I waited til it was over.

[jpinpb]

I found interesting how the debt formed historically and the relation to perceived wealth. UCGal, when you get a chance, listen to the rest of it online. I was sucked into it and even though I had to leave, I waited til it was over.

[jpinpb]

I found interesting how the debt formed historically and the relation to perceived wealth. UCGal, when you get a chance, listen to the rest of it online. I was sucked into it and even though I had to leave, I waited til it was over.

[jpinpb]

I found interesting how the debt formed historically and the relation to perceived wealth. UCGal, when you get a chance, listen to the rest of it online. I was sucked into it and even though I had to leave, I waited til it was over.

[jpinpb]

I found interesting how the debt formed historically and the relation to perceived wealth. UCGal, when you get a chance, listen to the rest of it online. I was sucked into it and even though I had to leave, I waited til it was over.

[bsrsharma]

The Case for Working With Your Hands

“…High-school shop-class programs were widely dismantled in the 1990s as educators prepared students to become “knowledge workers.” The imperative of the last 20 years to round up every warm body and send it to college, then to the cubicle, was tied to a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy. This has not come to pass. To begin with, such work often feels more enervating than gliding. More fundamentally, now as ever, somebody has to actually do things: fix our cars, unclog our toilets, build our houses….”

[bsrsharma]

The Case for Working With Your Hands

“…High-school shop-class programs were widely dismantled in the 1990s as educators prepared students to become “knowledge workers.” The imperative of the last 20 years to round up every warm body and send it to college, then to the cubicle, was tied to a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy. This has not come to pass. To begin with, such work often feels more enervating than gliding. More fundamentally, now as ever, somebody has to actually do things: fix our cars, unclog our toilets, build our houses….”

[bsrsharma]

The Case for Working With Your Hands

“…High-school shop-class programs were widely dismantled in the 1990s as educators prepared students to become “knowledge workers.” The imperative of the last 20 years to round up every warm body and send it to college, then to the cubicle, was tied to a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy. This has not come to pass. To begin with, such work often feels more enervating than gliding. More fundamentally, now as ever, somebody has to actually do things: fix our cars, unclog our toilets, build our houses….”

[bsrsharma]

The Case for Working With Your Hands

“…High-school shop-class programs were widely dismantled in the 1990s as educators prepared students to become “knowledge workers.” The imperative of the last 20 years to round up every warm body and send it to college, then to the cubicle, was tied to a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy. This has not come to pass. To begin with, such work often feels more enervating than gliding. More fundamentally, now as ever, somebody has to actually do things: fix our cars, unclog our toilets, build our houses….”

[bsrsharma]

The Case for Working With Your Hands

“…High-school shop-class programs were widely dismantled in the 1990s as educators prepared students to become “knowledge workers.” The imperative of the last 20 years to round up every warm body and send it to college, then to the cubicle, was tied to a vision of the future in which we somehow take leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information economy. This has not come to pass. To begin with, such work often feels more enervating than gliding. More fundamentally, now as ever, somebody has to actually do things: fix our cars, unclog our toilets, build our houses….”

[jpinpb]

Great story. I had been thinking that since the dot-com bust. If someone needs something fixed here, they can’t outsource it. The only job that will be secure are those that demand be physically done here.

“The Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues that the crucial distinction in the emerging labor market is not between those with more or less education, but between those whose services can be delivered over a wire and those who must do their work in person or on site. The latter will find their livelihoods more secure against outsourcing to distant countries. As Blinder puts it, “You can’t hammer a nail over the Internet.” Nor can the Indians fix your car. Because they are in India.”

“There is a pervasive anxiety among parents that there is only one track to success for their children. It runs through a series of gates controlled by prestigious institutions.

Further, there is wide use of drugs to medicate boys, especially, against their natural tendency toward action, the better to “keep things on track.” ”

“One shop teacher suggested to me that “in schools, we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be contrived and undeserving of their full attention and engagement. Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged.”

[jpinpb]

Great story. I had been thinking that since the dot-com bust. If someone needs something fixed here, they can’t outsource it. The only job that will be secure are those that demand be physically done here.

“The Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues that the crucial distinction in the emerging labor market is not between those with more or less education, but between those whose services can be delivered over a wire and those who must do their work in person or on site. The latter will find their livelihoods more secure against outsourcing to distant countries. As Blinder puts it, “You can’t hammer a nail over the Internet.” Nor can the Indians fix your car. Because they are in India.”

“There is a pervasive anxiety among parents that there is only one track to success for their children. It runs through a series of gates controlled by prestigious institutions.

Further, there is wide use of drugs to medicate boys, especially, against their natural tendency toward action, the better to “keep things on track.” ”

“One shop teacher suggested to me that “in schools, we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be contrived and undeserving of their full attention and engagement. Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged.”

[jpinpb]

Great story. I had been thinking that since the dot-com bust. If someone needs something fixed here, they can’t outsource it. The only job that will be secure are those that demand be physically done here.

“The Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues that the crucial distinction in the emerging labor market is not between those with more or less education, but between those whose services can be delivered over a wire and those who must do their work in person or on site. The latter will find their livelihoods more secure against outsourcing to distant countries. As Blinder puts it, “You can’t hammer a nail over the Internet.” Nor can the Indians fix your car. Because they are in India.”

“There is a pervasive anxiety among parents that there is only one track to success for their children. It runs through a series of gates controlled by prestigious institutions.

Further, there is wide use of drugs to medicate boys, especially, against their natural tendency toward action, the better to “keep things on track.” ”

“One shop teacher suggested to me that “in schools, we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be contrived and undeserving of their full attention and engagement. Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged.”

[jpinpb]

Great story. I had been thinking that since the dot-com bust. If someone needs something fixed here, they can’t outsource it. The only job that will be secure are those that demand be physically done here.

“The Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues that the crucial distinction in the emerging labor market is not between those with more or less education, but between those whose services can be delivered over a wire and those who must do their work in person or on site. The latter will find their livelihoods more secure against outsourcing to distant countries. As Blinder puts it, “You can’t hammer a nail over the Internet.” Nor can the Indians fix your car. Because they are in India.”

“There is a pervasive anxiety among parents that there is only one track to success for their children. It runs through a series of gates controlled by prestigious institutions.

Further, there is wide use of drugs to medicate boys, especially, against their natural tendency toward action, the better to “keep things on track.” ”

“One shop teacher suggested to me that “in schools, we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be contrived and undeserving of their full attention and engagement. Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged.”

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