Re:China Is About to Fire Up Its HL-2M Tokamak
by coldtea on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @06:32AM
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>My favorite example of this is a Chinese friend who cashed out of a startup for $22 million but is still a failure because he didn't get a college degree.
In such a consumerist society as the Chinese, I doubt many average Chinese consider someone with $22 million "a failure".
That could be some academically educated relatives and friends considering him a failure, sure.
But then again that could (and has been) the case in families with heavy academic backgrounds in the US too, where the doctors / university professors / etc for a couple generations parents look down upon the mere "entrepreneur" kid.
In such a consumerist society as the Chinese, I doubt many average Chinese consider someone with $22 million "a failure".
That could be some academically educated relatives and friends considering him a failure, sure.
But then again that could (and has been) the case in families with heavy academic backgrounds in the US too, where the doctors / university professors / etc for a couple generations parents look down upon the mere "entrepreneur" kid.