If debt is a “foreclosure on the future,” then our generation’s growing indebtedness equates to a growing loss of future autonomy. Even the most “bound-for-success” Cornellians — the ones headed for Silicon Valley or Wall Street — await a future of intensive hours, even if it’s as a worker in the services economy. The material gains of technological progress have thrusted smartphones into our hands and an internet upon which we may find endless self-expression. However, even in the developed world, is our material reality truly improving? Lorenzo Benitez is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Source: Daily Sun September 18, 2017 03:56 UTC