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Those are anecdotal exceptions. The average drug/alcohol abuser ends up badly, and the average college dropout earns much less than an average college graduate;
by boeingUH60 3y ago
Those are anecdotal exceptions. The average drug/alcohol abuser ends up badly, and the average college dropout earns much less than an average college graduate; the gap is over $1 million in lifetime earnings [1].
1- https://www.aplu.org/our-work/4-policy-and-advocacy/publicuvalues/employment-earnings/ https://www.aplu.org/our-work/4-policy-and-advocacy/publicuv...
- lapcat 3y agoBut the point is that different people can make the same bad decisions and end up with vastly different economic outcomes. I personally made some absolutely terrible decisions when I was younger that could have put me in jail or in the grave, but I managed to avoid both of those outcomes. ;-)