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Maybe school shouldn't be a competition with winners and losers.
by marcan_42 5y ago
Maybe school shouldn't be a competition with winners and losers.
- ei8htyfi5e 5y agoMaybe most schools but I went to the top school (most years) so it was. …and I had imposter syndrome, so I did everything I could to keep pace.
- adrianN 5y agoThat is impossible because there is limited supply of the things you want to achieve with your education, e.g. a tenure track position, and the demand is always higher than the supply.
- bryan_w 5y agoShhh don't tell them, let them stay unambitious. It makes it easier for the rest of us.
- akimball 5y agoThis is true only if your range of available strategies is constrained to a closed competitive subsystem. The actual range of available strategies is unbounded, given unlimited rationality.
- xboxnolifes 5y agoSchool is just a part of life, and life has limited resources. There will always be winners and losers. At least, until (and if) we reach a point where the total sum of resources exceeds the total demand for them.
- pfortuny 5y agoIs the score what makes a student a winner, though? That is what parents have to learn to curb.
- xboxnolifes 5y agoThe score is supposed to be representative of your knowledge in a subject. And the entire point of going to school is to become more knowledgeable in a subject so you can apply it somewhere in your life. If the score was not an indicator, then it serves no purpose.
- marcan_42 5y agoUnfortunately, academic scores in most of the world stopped representing knowledge and started representing rote memorization long ago. They are a very, very poor indication of knowledge.
- pfortuny 5y agoWell, if success in life is measured by getting the highest score, then we are really doomed.
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- krageon 5y agoCapitalist life is a competition with winners and losers. The losers are basically debt-slaves, and the winners are modern royalty.
- CountDrewku 5y agoALL LIFE is competition regardless of whether it's capitalistic or not. People need it or they're miserable. Competition is not a bad thing.
- akimball 5y agoCompetition is a bad thing when it squeezes out cooperative strategies with superior outcomes. This can be expected to be more frequent in a society perfuse with pro-competitive and anti-cooperative incentives. Competition is conceptually aligned with defection strategies. The fitness landscape generally has fragile optima at cooperative strategies. That said, competitive substrategies may contribute to the beneficial outcomes of a cooperative superstrategy of which they are a part. Not all life is competition. Ecosystems in general are a complex web of cooperation. One could say that all life is cooperation with equal merit.
- CountDrewku 5y agoYes, it's a sliding scale like everything. The idea that competition should not exist and is some outcome of "evil" capitalism is absolute ridiculousness. I was responding directly to that asinine comment. Life without competition doesn't exist, nor should it.
- krageon 5y agoMaybe all of your life is competition, but mine certainly is not. It's an unhealthy attitude to have in your private life as far as I'm concerned.
- CountDrewku 5y agoI did not say all my life is competition, it was a generalization that life cannot exist without competition. Reading comprehension bud. It's a natural attitude that's innate to human survival. You need competition or you will be a miserable mentally unhealthy person. You're in denial if you don't realize this truth. This ridiculous socialist utopia where everyone is at peace doing finger painting all day doesn't exist. It's a good way for your society to collapse though. Competition is not some artificial outcome produced by capitalist economic systems.