“The slacker culture that prevailed from the late 1980s through the early 2000s was a glorious thing.”

Link. I did degrees in 78, 82, 86, 91, 94 and I’m doing a UMN class now. Undergrads now are way more keen, intense, and stressed.

I think students know we have too much worldwide talent for too little demand, that modern life is chaotic, technology is moving too fast, rural collapse is giving us Trump, and now AI is coming. Econ numbers miss this.