Getting fired sucks. It is demoralizing physically, emotionally and socially. It happens to the best people and the worst people. It happens when you are making your very best effort and when you absolutely could care less. I remember one job I had: I was in three weeks of training.

published Dec 6, 2017, 10:00:09 AM, by Justin Fox (Bloomberg View) — The U.S. is exceptional, and therefore an outlier in lots of international comparisons. Our incomes are high and our taxes are low, which is good. But our health-care bills are astronomical and our infant mortality rate is awfully high, too (for a wealthy country),