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Re:“If you get a C or lower, I’ll buy you a present” by flukus on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:05PM (#12730642)
> What's interesting about our education system is we focus a lot on precision and accuracy and not that much on strategy and planning. It seems like a system built to produce accountants and actuaries more than a new generation of entrepreneurs.

Because it is? That's not necessarily a bad thing, the world only needs so many entrepreneurs.

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Re:“If you get a C or lower, I’ll buy you a present” by pdonis on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:19PM (#12730713)
> the world only needs so many entrepreneurs.

This might be true in principle, but in practice I would say our current world suffers from a huge undersupply of entrepreneurs, not an oversupply. Far too few people see the purpose of their jobs as creating wealth.

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