{"id":3909,"date":"2005-06-20T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/06\/20\/our-steps-falter\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:38","slug":"our-steps-falter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/06\/20\/our-steps-falter\/","title":{"rendered":"our steps falter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"coffee John Steele is hyper-steamed<\/a> about a Washington <\/em>Post<\/em> article on Starbuck’s\u00a0coffee and law school debt.\u00a0 “Javanomics 101<\/a>: Today’s Coffee is Tomorrow’s Debt,” June 18, 2005).\u00a0\u00a0 A career counselor at Seattle U. Law Schools\u00a0says a five-day-a-week $3 latte habit on borrowed money can cost $4,154, when repaid over 10\u00a0 ears.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The “Stop Buying Expensive Coffee and Save Calculator<\/strong><\/a>” shows that making your own coffee\u00a0rather than buying a $3 latte daily for 30 years, could save $55,341 (with interest).<\/div>\n
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John’s right that expensive coffee alone does not create the massive law-student debt that so limits career choices.\u00a0 However, it is a very representative symbol for a generation whose spending habits are so impractical and unnecessarily expensive, that they price themselves out of a lot of career options —\u00a0refusing to accept cheaper alternatives for food, entertainment, transportation, housing, \u00a0and more, that would be perfectly acceptable to about 90% of the adults in Western Europe.\u00a0 [see our prior law-school debt discussion here<\/a>] Why, when I was a . . . .<\/div>\n
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“<\/span>record heat<\/span><\/a>” & “<\/span>midsummer<\/span><\/a>” – The Heron’s Nest”<\/span><\/div>\n
“<\/span>late evening<\/span><\/a>” — World Haiku Review<\/em> (dedication to John Crook)<\/span><\/div>\n
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\"mothG\" —<\/span> Click here<\/a> for more recently-published haiku by Billie Wilson<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
on the Alaska Haiku Society website —<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n

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