Your Moment of Bobo
By I would like to note that the following two sentences appeared consecutively in David Brooks’ most recent column (my emphasis):
By contrast, in 2007, 58 percent of male Harvard graduates and 43 percent of female graduates went into finance and consulting.
The shift away from commercial values has been expressed well by Michelle Obama in a series of speeches.
In what sense a majority of Harvard graduates choosing highly remunerative corporate jobs represents a shift away from “commercial values” as opposed to a rational response to market incentives remains unexplained. And I’d like to say that Brooks doesn’t compound this deeply strange assertion by conflating consultants and investment bankers with nurses and teachers, but…