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One thing that excites me when I worry about the US losing its status is how competitive young people are. College admissions are absurd, and good grades are
by zoba 17y ago
One thing that excites me when I worry about the US losing its status is how competitive young people are.
College admissions are absurd, and good grades are a necessity. People take the SAT several times just to get a slightly higher score. Kids are fighting really hard to get into good schools, and so when I think of the younger generation being video gaming, tweeting, facebook addicts, I'm also happy to remember how much harder we work at school than our parents did.
- joe_the_user 17y agoThe question is whether the competitive ethos of young people is aimed at improving their relative position or whether they also aim to improve this society as a whole. (Anecdote Warning): My cousin at BP tells a story of rising executive who was fired for stealing a PC from work. She was nonplussed because his eventual salary would have made the cost of a PC nominal but he thought he deserved more right now - not a good story of "millennials".
- avdempsey 17y agoWatching cable tells a story of a generation that decided to fight a trillion dollar war without including the price tag in the national budget...pushing the cost onto future generations of Americans. Not a good story of "pre-millennials".
- joe_the_user 17y agoIndeed, the question is whether things are improving...