What’s more bullshit as a career than writing about what people did yesterday? Taking pictures of what people did yesterday. You don’t even need to know how to spell.

Is it any wonder that so many people go into journalism? You don’t need to take calculus in college, or physics, or quantitative analysis or any other class that teaches you a skill. When you get on the job—if you get a job—you follow a few simple rules like: don’t coach the subject (the Brits I work with think this is the funniest thing that Americans ever came up with), get their names and don’t clone in images of soldiers. Other than that, nobody really knows the difference between a good shot and a bad shot. The reader certainly can’t tell.

Somebody needs to tell the next generation of kids not to expect jobs if they choose journalism as a career. Preach on Monk; preach on.

-Knox Harrington

If you want to change the world start a hedge fund.