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In The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America (Times Books), Author Daniel Brook argues that while small luxuries from sangria to Ikea may come cheap these days, the ballooning costs of education, housing and health care are likely to drive talented twentysomethings into a Faustian bargain with corporate America. Or as Brook puts it: “Forget about saving America. Save yourself.”
(Times Books), Author Daniel Brook argues that while small luxuries from sangria to Ikea may come cheap these days, the ballooning costs of education, housing and health care are likely to drive talented twentysomethings into a Faustian bargain with corporate America. Or as Brook puts it: “Forget about saving America. Save yourself.”It wasn’t always this way, Brook explains: “In 1970, someone starting at a big-city corporate law firm made just $2,000 more than a starting teacher in a big-city school. Today that salary gap is $100,000.”
But simply accepting that the rich will always get richer, and that they will dominate our educational and political systems, Brook argues, “is basically giving up on the whole point of America.”
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