Sublime

Talking openly about one’s income is still considered taboo. Oh sure, women moan and groan freely about how little they make. But how often do they wax on about their rising wages?

Huebner found that while the total number of innovations rose in the twentieth century, the number of innovations per capita peaked in the nineteenth century.

Job Creation and Loss by Firm Age (average per year, by year-group, 1992–2005)

In 1900, only 6.4 percent of Americans of the appropriate age group graduated from high school. By 1960, 60 percent of Americans were graduating from high school, almost ten times the rate of only sixty years earlier. This rate peaked at about 80 percent in the late 1960s and since then has fallen by about six percentage points.

Women’s voices used to register a full octave higher than men’s voices, but now they register only two-thirds of an octave higher on average. That suggests women are trying to fit into a more “managerial” set of social roles, but it is not always easy for them, in part due to voice bias.9