Everyone Wants To Be A DJ, Especially In Broke-Ass Times

Are you as tired as I am of all of these weird articles that (I assume) try to make the reader feel better by inducing sympathy for the rich, who now have to cancel vacations or eat fewer babies because of the economy, which sucks for everyone including the very rich? More likely the intent behind them is to induce severe shadenfreude, as some kind of grand distraction and as a means of pitting us all against each other but not in any way that might lead to actual class war? The New York Times is running half a dozen pieces like this a day. Among the worst there’s this one here, which basically says, “Oh my God, trust fund kids might have to get jobs now,” but seems very cynically written to me.

Anyway, the funniest and most actually uplifting of the bunch is this article from Time magazine, wherein they say that because of the economic apocalypse, more people are becoming DJs! Or, at least, going to DJ schools. More than a little bit of actual reporting seems to have gone into the piece, and it is super interesting that enrolment in DJ schools is up so much over last year.

There’s one definite growth industry, right there — running a DJ school! I think I’m going to start one in my garage next week.

—DJ Yeti