The Social Ladder Problem

Ladies and Gentlemen of our world-wide audience (no, I haven't smoked anything google analytics tells me we have had readers in the UK, India, singapore and countless other nations around the world, ok perhaps not countless) good day.

Those of you that have kept up withe the blog know that my favorite columnist is David Brooks of the NY Times. I usually link to his tuesday column, but this week he was only featured on Friday. As such, you can find this week's column right here, its all about the social ladder and the toll it takes to climb it.