Oh, joy. What I would give for Theodore Roosevelt to come back from the dead and eviscerate Wall Street.
Bully. The United States really could benefit from an encore of the
Trust Buster (song starts at 0:50)I can't recall either of these institutions' names, but maybe awareness of our impact on the Earth will keep snowballing and it will cease to be omitted.
It is was a degree, then probably University of Washington (not sure of the other). It is a good institution in many regards and I would expect them to have a program like that. Indeed, I suspect you could find those sorts of programs in a good number of Universities up and down the West Coast of the United States.
Heck, just a basic "good citizenship" class in Elementary-through-High-School would probably be incredibly useful. Teach basics like economics, finances, environmentalism, logic and reasoning, in-depth studies of politics and the legal codes of the nation and world, etc. There is just so much that people need to know that falls outside the realms of Math, History, Science, English, and P.E.
But then again, having a house is a big part of that "American Dream" that is so revered. Some Most are not cut out for owning the kind of house they want, if any at all, not to mention 2 cars, kids etc.
Well, to be fair, it isn't just "houses" that people can't afford. Condos, townhomes, even apartments can all be well outside of a person's price range. I'd say that desiring to own a house isn't the bad thing, it is desiring to own things outside of one's price range. Insofar as such a desire might motivate people into working to make those things inside their price range, it is good. But people are lazy and seldom desire to do the work.
Of course, how we Americans arrange our houses is itself idiotic, making a bad thing worse. Sure, it is nice to own your own house, but when you have to spend 30 minutes driving by nothing but other houses, just to get to the nearest store, things get a little creepy and Twilight-Zone-y.
