[Gorzaloon]

In part, that's because older workers are prized for their experience and stability: "It's not at all surprising that we're seeing people who have come from an Old Economy set of values becoming more attractive again now,"

It is not just an old "Set of values". It is being educated in basics, before the NEA managed to start teaching "Feeling good about Failure", rather than teaching people to succeed.

It is being able to make change mentally, and knowing how to do long division and communicate in writing, and have some basic general Science.

Now, we are awarding PhD's in (Hahaha) "Urban Studies".

I know stockbrokers and dot-commers. What special skills are needed for either, that a bright 14-year-old could not acquire? How to fleece widows by churning their portfolios, or how to hire a thousand people to "manage a WEBSITE"?

Sorry, but these were never real jobs in the first place. And if a child-free couple made a few hundred thousand in the good years, and saved nothing, while having few expenses, now they know more...and have learned more then a hundred thousand in "Feel Good about Failure" tuition could ever have taught them. The good ones will rise stronger for it, the bad ones will be doing what they should have been in the first place.

[valkyrieanne]

And if a child-free couple made a few hundred thousand in the good years, and saved nothing, while having few expenses, now they know more...and have learned more then a hundred thousand in "Feel Good about Failure" tuition could ever have taught them. The good ones will rise stronger for it, the bad ones will be doing what they should have been in the first place.

Thank you. Well said.

[PFKEY]

now they know more...and have learned more then a hundred thousand in "Feel Good about Failure" tuition could ever have taught them. The good ones will rise stronger for it, the bad ones will be doing what they should have been in the first place.

Reality!

[martin gibson]

Now, we are awarding PhD's in (Hahaha) "Urban Studies".

Howsabout 'Ethno Urbanology'...(and, as Dave Barry would say, I am NOT making this up).

[USMMA_83]

The good ones will rise stronger for it, the bad ones will be doing what they should have been in the first place.

I once told my dad (after I was benched on our high-school basket-ball team), that the cream always rises to the top (the cream being me)...my dad looked at me and said, "So does scum!"