I remember the first time I ran into Milton Friedman's teachings, and I remember flat out rejecting his ideas as my younger self was too idealistic to be open to them. I guess it's not uncommon for us humans to be a little more unicornian in our youth, but I wish more young minds would take a few minutes to really study Milton's teachings.
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I fully realize that some more left leaning friends of mine, would find his ideas on "equal pay for equal work" regressive, but it's actually very cognitively consistent. Of course we can sit here and deny these ideas, call them irrational even, but it seems to me the evidence is there for us to see what our current way of governing the economy has not been working that well.
For the sake of throwing a wrench into the gears, try to listen to this, more so if you blatantly disagree and try to let the concept sink into your mind. I loved the fact that he was challenged, passively accused of sexism and his demeanor stayed professional and friendly.
Do yourself a favor and consume this knowledge, its out there, there is no reason for us not to learn from wise minds that left us a body of knowledge we simply could not collect on our own.