It's less "dumb", more "trained." Ezra Klein had an excellent podcast with Daniel Markovits a couple weeks ago that touched on this--being optimized (by parents

It's less "dumb", more "trained." Ezra Klein had an excellent podcast with Daniel Markovits a couple weeks ago that touched on this--being optimized (by parents and the local culture around you) to succeed at getting to Harvard (or Yale or whatever) doesn't mean that it's the best thing for you or for society to be afforded the significant benefits that we, both consciously and unconsciously, assign to that.