Re:Two leading economists disagree about the flagging Americ...
by AnimalMuppet on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:54PM
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Rich kids such as you describe get every opportunity except one: having parents that actually care about them. Don't minimize how much it hurts to not have that. (I don't just mean psychological hurt, either. I mean things like broken relationships, drug use, and suicide - things that can destroy the ability of talent to manifest itself in any productive way.)
Re:Two leading economists disagree about the flagging Americ...
by ls612 on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:23PM
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I’d take that any day over having rich parents who are control freaks and dress that up as “caring” (but really only caring that I get good grades and follow their standards of ‘morally upstanding’)
There’s a huge distance between the majority of parents who “care” in that way and those who truly care about their children.
Worse: you are punishing poor children who don't draw parents who sacrifice everything until they rest in an early grave, while rich children who have parents who don't remember how many kids they have after a few drinks get every opportunity in the world.
This is a specifically middle-class moralization that defines merit as the product of the ability to suffer and "giftedness," and measures merit by looking at outcomes.