While traveling to Hong Kong this year I’ve heard a theme from friends common to friends in Brooklyn: You have to work harder to stay in place with rising costs. It never ceases to amaze me how assignments can echo life. Mark Tyner at The Wall St. Journal had an article about Social Security payments being less than you thought when retiring so people need to work longer. Naturally the idea of a treadmill or the hamster in a wheel metaphor came to mind. Seems like the spinning wheel feeling can be felt no matter where you look.
