Quote of the Day

Can we please stop this nonsense that if you Just Work Hard Enough, you'll be successful and get into the rich guys club? It's been depressing over the last thirty years watching working people buy into this stupidity and then find themselves scrambling to keep a roof over their heads. And yet they still believe it. They believe it because the Horatio Alger mythos pervades every part of our society. But for every guy who nails together two things that have never been nailed together before (h/t George Carlin) and finds enough schmucks to buy it from him to become a millionaire, there's a spoiled trust fund baby who rises through the ranks after starting at Vice President because his father golfs with the CEO; and there's a million guys who go to work at a mind- and body-numbing job every day for thirty years and then die of a heart attack at sixty.

Jill, of course.