It is a thoughtful and impassioned account of the causes of inequality and its consequences for economic and social life in America. These attributions move him to join the legion of commentators who have questioned the moral legitimacy of today's top salaries. The more novel and important message of his book, however, is that the lure of top salaries has often steered precious talent toward frivolous tasks in the private sector, depleting our supply of competent teachers and public servants. The Electronic Policy Network - Timely information and ideas about national policy and politics. A project of The American Prospect, a journal for the liberal imagination.
Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. Wine it and dine it. Design it to fit the occasion.