> So the “practical” solution is to change human nature?
We could at least stop giving young people terrible advice like, "you can do anything, live your dream!"
"Get a practical job to pay the bills, and do your dream as a side gig," is a pretty reasonable compromise.
Most people are have a low tolerance for risk and it's a problem when they get into a field that requires being a risk taker. That tolerance for risk is a strong unconscious bias, so they go into hyper-competitive fields and wind up being the 99% who go nowhere.
Putting out advice, "don't do risky stuff" also doesn't harm real risk-takers because they won't take that advice anyway.
> It’d be like saying that the practical solution to human trafficking is for people to stop visiting prostitutes; or that the solution to gangs’ drug income is for people to stop buying drugs.
No, it's like saying not getting into prostitution or gangs is a good way to avoid those problems in your life.
We could at least stop giving young people terrible advice like, "you can do anything, live your dream!"
"Get a practical job to pay the bills, and do your dream as a side gig," is a pretty reasonable compromise.
Most people are have a low tolerance for risk and it's a problem when they get into a field that requires being a risk taker. That tolerance for risk is a strong unconscious bias, so they go into hyper-competitive fields and wind up being the 99% who go nowhere.
Putting out advice, "don't do risky stuff" also doesn't harm real risk-takers because they won't take that advice anyway.
> It’d be like saying that the practical solution to human trafficking is for people to stop visiting prostitutes; or that the solution to gangs’ drug income is for people to stop buying drugs.
No, it's like saying not getting into prostitution or gangs is a good way to avoid those problems in your life.