[jethro_tell]

Absolutely, I love building complex technical systems but I'm also an pretty kick ass carpenter and mechanic and I'd probably prefer that to carrying a pager if it was easy to raise a family in the city with either gig.

Even in the projects, getting good trades jobs is a problem, because you don't have that network.

[skywal_l]

Maybe my comment was poorly phrased. What I meant is: we arrived to a point where wealth is so much concentrated that, without connection to the happy few, life is miserable for regular folks. It should not be the case. You should be able to live in a relatively modest neighborhood and still go by because people living around you have enough money to hire you as a plumber or whatever. Working class folks' network is always going to be other working class folks.

Wealth is being concentrated in fewer hands and it is slowly destroying middle-class society fabric which modern liberal* democracy is based on (* as in 18th century liberal).

Not everybody can live in the hamptons.