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An interesting premiss
"[To] be a sellout or a saint"--that is, whether to take a lucrative corporate job or to eke out a pauper's existence in creative or nonprofit work. "The new economic realities," Brook writes, "are shaping people's lives, closing off certain career and lifestyle options.
Under the old economic realities it was extremely lucrative to be a saint. Simply recall Francis of Assisi, who made more money than Bill Gates. We too deserve to get wealthy pursuing our personal spiritual visions.
It is preposterous to demand that anyone produce some useful product or service. Everyone is owed a middle class life style (or better) for simply being born.
July 2007 · Books