Avoiding the Career Path

More young women, or girls, these days are getting the idea that maybe they don’t want to go to college/get a career — even while their parents are pressuring them in that direction. College basically consists of vocational training, and general education. You don’t need vocational training, since you aren’t going to have a job.Continue reading “Avoiding the Career Path”

The Two-Income Trap

Back when Elizabeth Warren was doing something useful, instead of being a Socialist pest, she wrote a book called The Two Income Trap. It was an investigation into how families ended up in bankruptcy. Warren found that families were not, for the most part, spending money haphazardly or wantonly, on silly luxuries. Rather, their fixedContinue reading “The Two-Income Trap”

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

“The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world,” it has been said. This is not quite so: but the “hand that rocks the cradle” does determine the world. It seems like the oddities of young people are rather irrelevant. Who cares if some 19-year-old dingbat has some kind of kooky opinion in college? ItContinue reading “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle”