Tom Friedman Should Take The Week Off And Regroup - By Charles P. Pierce

[HughBeaumont]

3. You know, because a one-in-10,000 shot worked for her, it can work for ANYONEZZ!!!

Tommy Bucksbaum . . . A picture perfect example of a guy who pretty much never really had to work hard to get where he is in life, never really had to struggle, has networking skills and fell into all the right jobs (and eventually, married the right person), yet has an endless well of solutions that usually tend to ignore the giant-elephant factors of wage stagnation, astronomical college costs, unrealistic expectations of Corporate America, unrealistic odds of "Horatio Alger" type success and just plain-and-simple bad luck. I don't think a person such as that should deem himself such an authority as to what American workers have to do to better themselves. I might as well listen to an Ovarian Lottery winner like Steve Forbes on the subject; it'd make about as much sense.

Best comment of all from that article:

I own a business that employs managers, computer-based admin and sales staff and shop floor workers, and I can say with absolute certainty that a vast majority of our fellow citizens have no ability to succeed as entrepreneurs. And that if our society requires any significant percent of our fellow citizens to be entrepreneurs that we are all in very big trouble.

The idea that mainstream employment will evolve from hunting/gathering to farming to working in a factory to running a small Internet start-up is simply ridiculous. Despite what Mr. Friedman wants to believe, Internet entrepreneurship will have zero impact on falling middle class wages and quality of life.