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Re:The Last of the Tiger Parents by coldtea on Monday June 25, 2018 @11:22AM (#17393092)
People have followed their dreams in much worse times -- and with much less luxuries.
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Re:The Last of the Tiger Parents by rayiner on Monday June 25, 2018 @12:12PM (#17393529)
Following your dreams is a luxury for people in the global top 5% (mostly in the west). Everyone else is locked in bitter competition. I'm not convinced America will stay comfortably above that fray over my daughter's lifetime.
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Re:The Last of the Tiger Parents by coldtea on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @05:23AM (#17399051)
>Following your dreams is a luxury for people in the global top 5% (mostly in the west).

You'd be really surprised.

People follow their dreams even in the bottom 5% -- including as refugees, in times of war, and in all kinds of bad situations, and in all kinds of cultures, not just "the west".

The "starving artist" (who does or does not make it) is not something out of fiction, and neither is the piss poor bootstrapped entrepreneur.

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