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> be me, move to Manhattan
> thought rich people just had drivers and doormen
> turns out there's an entire shadow economy catering to the ultra-rich: assistants, private chefs, security, manicurists, masseuses
> meet a 24 y/o girl from some random Midwest state school
> now a “family... See more
John Wangx.comRaising children has come to look more and more like a business endeavor and less and less like an endeavor of the heart. We are overly concerned with “the bottom line,” with how our children “do” rather than with who our children “are.” We pour time, attention, and money into insuring their performance, consistently making it to their soccer game... See more
Madeline Levine • The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
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Americans in their 30s have never looked less like grown-ups.
Amid steep declines in homeownership, marriage and birth rates, economists have long been warning that young people are struggling to meet the milestones of adulthood. Although some 30-somethings are consciously choosing a less traditional path, many say... See more
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1981 memo on hiring from Bear Sterns
Sought ppl with a degree in PSD - poor, smart and a deep desire to get rich
Warns agst MBAs
Co died 37 years later
Prob started hiring MBAs https://t.co/uUhFgac9Yp
“handsome and pretty and educated and white”, who, according to the Times, not only “believed they owned the world” but “had reason to”. She was from a Pittsburgh suburb, Upper St. Clair, the daughter of a retired Westinghouse senior manager. She had been Phi Beta Kappa at Wellesley, a graduate of the Yale School of Management, a congressional
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