The United States Is A Safe Harbor.

When Corporations Get Special Handouts From The Government, Subsidies And Tax Breaks, It Costs You. It Means You Have To Pay More In Taxes To Make Up For These Hidden Expenses, And Government Has Less Money For Good Schools And Roads, Medicare And National Defense And Everything Else You Need.

We Used To Be So Proud That Our Country Offered Far More Economic Opportunities Than The Feudal System In Great Britain, With Its Royal Family, Princesses And Dukes. But Social Mobility In The Uk Is Higher Than In The Us. Our Social Rift Is As Big As It Was In The 1920s.

What Characteristics Are Most Important In Creative Workers? One Quality You Need Is Inventiveness. You Need To Be Able To Take Whatever Product Or Service You Are Providing And Figure Out Ways Of Making It Better, Faster, Cheaper. The Other Quality Is Empathy And Insight Into What People Might Want, Even Though They Don't Even Know Their Wants, Probably Because There's No Product Or Service To Test Their Wants.

In Washington, It's Dog Eat Dog. In Academia, It's Exactly The Opposite.

You Have To Keep A Sense Of Humor About Yourself, More Than Anything Else. You've Got To Take The Issues Very Seriously, But You Can't Take Yourself Too Seriously. And Washington Is A City In Which Everybody Takes Themselves Extraordinarily Seriously.