During the last tech down turn, I was unemployed for about a year and ate into most of my savings. The first job I was able to get was stacking candles at a store for minimum wage. I had a lot of trouble making ends meet, and often spent nights worrying if I would make rent. I swore to myself that I’d never be in such bad shape again.<\/p>\n
In 2003, my poverty was something I’d like to believe I chose, and romanticized, perhaps because it wasn’t hardcore poverty. I knew others who fared worse, who never enjoyed the first dot-com gravy train, or who had bought homes in 1999 thinking that they’d always make $80,000 a year as a secretary. I made half that as a coder in 1999 because I didn’t believe it was right to make that much. Now, I’ve tossed that idealism aside and really am out there to make as much as I can get.<\/p>\n
It’s 2008, and I see that the douche bags of Wall Street through their greed have managed to get my attention in the form of a world financial crisis. I see that most Americans by not saving have also created a mole hill out of things. I see that we cannot believe in an economic system of rational agents because now we are not.<\/p>\n
The big take away is to save, save, save.<\/p>\n
Just like in Fight Club, the things you’ve owned are now owning you.<\/p>\n
The big question: How Will the World’s Financial Crisis Affect Web 2.0?<\/b><\/p>\n
In what structured ways will the world around us crumble?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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