Average People

普通人

作者: Aaron Swartz | 来源: aaronsw.com | 时间: 2007-02-14

Average People

普通人

Average People

普通人

College towns are funny. I’m sitting in a small cafe, reading my little book, eating my little breakfast. I’m the only customer around and the employees seem to have forgotten there’s even me, so they start gabbing to themselves. The Mexican immigrant chef is chatting to the high school dropout waitress. Pause here and ask yourself what these two people might talk to each other about in their spare time. Try and think about what you might talk to them about were you in such a situation. Now recall that you’re in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They were talking, quite animatedly, about the demographic trends for marriage under European-style social democracy.

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