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Broad clickbait title when the article focuses on standardized testing amongst low-income minorities. More than just minorities, the wasted talent problem exte
by JDiculous 8y ago
Broad clickbait title when the article focuses on standardized testing amongst low-income minorities.
More than just minorities, the wasted talent problem extends even to the elite. Ivy League students aspire to work in investment banking and management consulting. The finance industry is one of the biggest modern-day brain drains.
The real wasted talent is in the modern day labor market. We need to invest more in the jobs we want to see - otherwise our brightest minds will continue to waste their lives making money for wealthy people instead of working on the important problems.
- cm2187 8y agoMuch better to have the elite of a generation working on new ways to invade their fellow citizen's privacy to sell that data to advertisers, which is basically the business model of half of the Silicon Valley...
- SomethingOrNot 8y ago> More than just minorities, the wasted talent problem extends even to the elite. Ivy League students aspire to work in investment banking and management consulting. The finance industry is one of the biggest modern-day brain drains. The elite is supposed to be a net drain on society. Or else they would not be “elite”.