Tipping Point

Gladwell writes about something known as the "tipping point". This is the idea that there is a certain threshold which determines human behavior. The Hush Puppies did not gradually become popular, but it happened instead in a hurry. There's a certain number for different behaviors that, once crossed, somehow influences and alters the behavior of a vast majority of the population. Gladwell includes examples from Micronesia with suicide rates, and compares those to cigarette smoking in western teens. It is still unclear to me why exactly this happens, I guess that is why it is considered a phenomenon. It is very interesting, however, that a smaller portion of a population, that has no real influential power, can somehow set a trend for the rest of society, and future generations.

In the second article, outsourcing jobs was the main idea. It seems as though America is getting rid of not just some labor intensive jobs, but white collar high end jobs as well. When is this going to stop? This article casts a dim light on the employment situation for our generation.