Ambition

According to the Census Bureau’s 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States, most college freshmen in 1970 said their primary goal was to develop a meaningful life philosophy. In 2005, by contrast, most freshmen said their primary goal was to be comfortably rich.
-Jim Holt, "You Are What You Expect," The New York Times Magazine, 21 Jan. 2007.

Do you find this as troubling as I?