America Gets Up Early

I went to the gym at 5:30 today, and the cars on the highways here in the Bay Area were bumper to bumper. America gets up early. In Berlin or Buenos Aires, you show up to work at 10 am, take a few cappuccino’s throughout the day, are home by 16:00 for your daily siesta; and you never, god forbid, bring work home with you. And while this is charming and quaint, and I love it for my “summering”, the niceties of modern society require that someone does the heavy lifting; steel needs pouring, chips need designing, securities must be bought and traded. So for all this talk about this economic crisis being the end of American exceptionalism in the world, all one needs to do is take a drive on an American highway at 5: 30 on a weekday. America gets up early…and the early bird still gets the worm.