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> The prevalence of extreme signalling brews the classic and infamous herd mentality in our minds. In middle school children have dreams to become a Pilot in th
by calibas 6y ago
> The prevalence of extreme signalling brews the classic and infamous herd mentality in our minds. In middle school children have dreams to become a Pilot in the airforce, or maybe a Police officer, or maybe a Opera Singer ! But by the time of high school, everyone is just either on road to become an Engineer, a Doctor, a Lawyer, a Chartered Accountant …. or a failure. This may seem harsh but that’s how most of the society operates here in India.
Sounds remarkably similar to how I was raised here in the US.
- zanny 6y agoIt seems the more unequal the society the more pressure there is on children to "beat the odds" to avoid languishing in poverty by being useful to capital in some way. In many European countries and other strong first world nations like Japan and Oz that provide strong social safety nets and baseline standards of living you see the inverse passive effect described in other comments where people can stop trying to sell themselves at all. So it seems like people will eat each other until the average is good enough at which point a segment of the population stops competing at all.
- imheretolearn 6y ago>> Sounds remarkably similar to how I was raised here in the US However, there are 2 differences: 1. In the US, it's not about survival. 2. And, I remember reading this somewhere and it's struck a chord. "If you're one in a million, there are 1300 others just like you"