Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick?

Re:Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick? by analog31 on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:06PM (#10841110)

I certainly fear poverty. No question there. That fear could be exacerbated by the erosion of the safety net in the US, and by economic segregation. Poor people experience worse health, higher violence, more intrusive police presence, less social stability.

I don't know what it would be like to move my family to Southeast Asia. How do they treat women? I suspect that it varies from country to country. Are their education systems better? I've heard that Korea is everything bad that we've been talking about in this thread, and a friend of mine from Singapore said: "I prefer the American schools. There are fewer beatings."

My problem is that I actually like education as an end unto itself. That's my culture. I just don't want it to kill people, or burn them out.

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Re:Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick? by eric-hu on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @02:06PM (#10845203)

If my last post came across as a suggestion to move your family here, that was not my intention. I mentioned it to contrast happiness against economic success. In American media, the two are so frequently treated as the same, and from what I see here, they're quite different.

It seems like some societies are willing to teach people to be unhappy to achieve economic success. Singapore and South Korea are good examples of this. I question in which direction America is headed.

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