Risky Business, Safer Bets: The Betrayal of Junior Achievement

In the early 1980s, a cultural spark lit the imagination of American teenagers: Tom Cruise, clad in adolescent arrogance and entrepreneurial nerve, stood before a panel of judges in Risky Business and declared, "My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night." To high schoolers like myself, this …