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pantalaimon on April 26, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (...

Sure if money is what you want to optimize for, that's the route to take. For me it was always more about the passion in building things, money is nice but IMHO other things are more important.

allannienhuis on April 26, 2020 [–]

I'm pretty confident that most of the young people optimizing to get into the very top schools, are optimizing for $$.

Perhaps to some extent some are optimizing for social class (staying in the one they grew up in).

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