Example of how we kill the planet: Man drives 1680 miles round trip to take a 3 hour improv class. Let me count the ways. A person with no vocation can drop $150 a week on gas to go to a improv class. I'll say it another way. A person who contributes nothing still has enough money to conjure up enough hydrocarbon slaves to transport him at least 2/3 the distance it took Lewis and Clark to travel in 1 year in about 15 hours so he can take an improv class. WTF.
He'd probably have a better shot spending the $150 on lottery tickets and in the mean time taking a class in Dallas (you're telling me they don't laugh in Texas?) and then when his ship comes in move to Chicago and take the class full time. Or hell, if you figure 4 x $150 is $600 I'm sure he could find a studio apartment in or around Chicago and take some public transportation to the class. Whatevs.
But the moral of the story is that someone who produces no directly measurable physical good (not necessarily meaning economically; he could volunteer in a hospice or soup kitchen) has enough resources to trade for the power to travel quite rapidly (compared to previous human history) to learn a career that has a lottery winner's chance of actually making a wage. Yep, that is a barometer of our times.
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