A Young Person's Musing on "Handicrafts"

I saw this on Ravelry and just had to save it here.  Ravelry got mentioned in the New York Times!

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/a-young-reader-asks-is-there-an-elitist-oligarchy-in-the-underworld-of-knitters/