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Scarcity – The Good and the Bad

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Food production in the United States has steadily increased as farmers used more and better equipment and materials to coax better yields from their fields. When we don’t have much of something we need or desire, the bit of it that we do have is savored all the more or we are willing (if able) to pay more to obtain the item.

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How to Pick A Career

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Dr. John Krumboltz, Professor of Educational Psychology at Standford University studies how people choose careers. I majored in Psychology (liberal arts), graduating in the early 70’s. I didn’t even realize that most jobs required a doctorate in Psychology to really use the knowledge in a career.