> parents sign up kids to every possible extracurricular they can afford
Yeah, that's what causes the tradeoff. Kids can't do school, work on projects, and have parents that fill their schedule with loads of other stuff. It would have been perfectly reasonable for PG to launch his attacks on overscheduling rather than school.
> pg did not talk about riches in this essay
He talked about "work they do as adults" and "more predictive value" and "When I was picking startups for Y Combinator".
> It would have been perfectly reasonable for PG to launch his attacks on overscheduling rather than school.
I agree, it would have been. But I wouldn't let schools off the hook, because they are the other edge of the feedback loop: in big part, extracurriculars exist as a way to game admission system. Together, they form a system that tries to consume all the free time a kid has.
> He talked about "work they do as adults" and "more predictive value" and "When I was picking startups for Y Combinator".
At least in his writing, pg does play with the idea that work is valuable beyond the money it earns you, so I interpreted this essay in that light.
Yeah, that's what causes the tradeoff. Kids can't do school, work on projects, and have parents that fill their schedule with loads of other stuff. It would have been perfectly reasonable for PG to launch his attacks on overscheduling rather than school.
> pg did not talk about riches in this essay
He talked about "work they do as adults" and "more predictive value" and "When I was picking startups for Y Combinator".