As a blind individual in America I’m an example of someone on the disability bubble. What allowed me to avoid going on disability was college. By being blind I got some additional financial help to get through college. Even though I could have probably gotten full disability it made a lot more sense for me to get a degree and a programming job. I never considered going the disability rout since I easily make three times what I would have on disability and expect that gap to grow wider as I become more experience. If college hadn’t been an option for me I could easily see myself going on disability. I can’t think of a lot of jobs I could do that wouldn’t have required a college degree since most physical labor is not an option for me. Even with the help I got from the government with college I’ll still wind up being a plus on the governments balance sheet since I don’t receive any disability payments now that I work full time and pay taxes. Unfortunately from reading the story most people don’t have the opportunities I did, and even if they do some refuse to take advantage of them. While I think we should expand opportunities for education and job training there’s no way to force people to take advantage of them.