>Journalism. Teaching. Parenting.

That doesn't really answer the question.

>How much stress, mental illness, and wasted human potential is that?

You're not addressing my point. You don't have to like stress, mentall illness or wasted potential, I don't like it either, but I don't see how that would automatically create obligations on the part of anyone else. (Besides your parents insofar as they created you and consigned you to some sort of existence in the world.)

>Instead of being snide, why don't you just say what you think?

I did say what I think. The article presented some reasoning that didn't make sense to me and I pointed out why it didn't make sense.

>You seem to be very eager to blame the individual instead of examining the problems inherent in our current economic system.

I'm quite interested in examining the problems, I've examined the problems plenty, however it turns out that the principles and solutions are counterintuitive and the vast majority of people would prefer to perpetuate bad (but intuitive and cathartic) ideological nonsense instead. That's why it's important for people to work through the problems themselves and understand what's going on, rather than just listening to more propositions thrown around out of context.

I don't really see how I was 'blaming the individual', other than blaming the article writer for posting bad ideas about economics, of course.