There’s this really cheesy R&B song from the early ’90s that goes “I wanna be rich, ba ba ba-ba-ba-da-ba.” It was a pretty big hit at the time. The melody and hook runs through my head every time I daydream about untold riches.
Tonight, I started reading Ramit Sethi’s book “I Will Teach You To Be Rich,” of which there is a highly successful blog that is its namesake. In the very first chapter, “Would You Rather Be Sexy or Rich,” he references the average college student’s dreams of being a millionaire by 40 years old. He doesn’t mention it explicitly but I imagine that for many of these college students, their imagined path to wealth involves a trek through grad school, which begs the question: [click to continue…]
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