The Great Divide

I liked this piece in Slate:

http://www.slate.com/id/2170561/nav/tap3/

I was struck by the divide while in San Francisco last weekend (I was there teaching in the Wharton Executive MBA program). One the one hand I talked to a waitress who had moved to California because of its (relatively) high minimum wage and a bartender who was extolling the virtues of an employer who paid $15 per hour before tips. On the other hand, I was at a party where a woman was saying how her mother would find it hard to get by on a nest-egg of $3-4 million. If I were more creative, I could weave these vignettes into a novel about contemporary America.