“What is the difference between the investment banker and the
twenty-first century sharecropper? Instead of other men’s land,
he tills other men’s money.”
in funding for your families. I’m thinking of a friend
who truly enjoys economics, another who has
promised to put cousins through college. For them a
means-to-an-end mentality may render fulfilling the
jobs they choose. But what of us, we seeming martyrs,
whose real passions lie elsewhere? Can we compensate
with $80K incomes what we lack in inspiration? Is
happiness so cheap?
I am neither rich nor naïve and understand that recent
grads must eat. I understand also that anything done
solely for money will ultimately compromise the soul.
I am speaking to you creative geniuses whose works
adorn most college campuses. I am writing to you
educated activists who want to open youth centres,
create AIDS foundations, refo &