[heycarsten]

I can't help but think the real bubble is in our own inflated sense of ourselves. Everyone thinks their child is capable of becoming the next great whatever, but the reality is that there are only so many people with original and useful ideas out there.

Higher education is dangled as the carrot that is the means to achieving greatness. Everyone speculates that the future will yield awesomeness, but when it takes too long to reach our unrealistic expectations we overreact in the opposite fashion. We have this never-ending cycle of overinflated possibility followed by reality and an overreaction of conservation.

Is it perhaps a flaw in our culture? Selling an idea is more important than the idea itself. Getting "traction" or "backing" is more important than delivering something real and of actual value.