Chapter 3 q.2

• What are the implications for the future? Are there long- or short-term consequences to the issues raised in the book? Are they positive or negative, affirming or frightening?

Charles Wheelan does a great job of connecting to all sorts of readers, and he definitely brought up a personal experience of mine in the text: the children behind you on an airplane kicking your seat. I was once flying to Mexico with my mom, an as always I wanted to take the window seat. Wrong choice, because there was a kid behind me who was extremely persistent in kicking the back of my chair. I am one to glare at someone if they are doing something to directly annoy me, so I looked back and glared. I was so annoyed I even looked at his mom and their baby too. Then, the baby started crying. Worst flight ever. This is a perfect example of a negative externality. I think that negative externalities are more than just smoking, or participating in landfills and pollution, which are general examples. Another example that I thought of was of people in public feeling the need to have extremely loud conversations with someone on the phone. My mother and I always mock them, because we really want them to hear us and . Also, texting and driving. My mom was driving behind a 40 year old business man blatantly texting and driving and when she pulled up next to her after he had been swerving everywhere, and she honked... then he then flicked her off. I just hate when people think they are entitled to put others below them. I was shocked and frankly offended that he had been so rude to my mom. I think negative externalities are so important when looking at not just economics, but every aspect of the world we live in. Half of surviving is learning how to work around these externalities, or other people's wrong doings. It what many companies, lawyers, business, hospitals, etc. have to do and ultimately it is how they make their money.