And because our parents pay the tab, such mental connections carry a destructive payload: consumption and production are not correlated. - M.J. DeMarco

I studied everything from finance to Internet programming to more autobiographies of the rich.

The world has no shortage of people seeking lounge-chair, remote-control success — they want all that life has to offer — just as long as it comes in comfortable harmony. This young man striving to save his mother from poverty? He’s a force-packing Jedi Knight among a legion of soulless stormtroopers.

If you have to think about “affordability,” you can’t afford it because affordability carries conditions and consequences.