> The parents working at a Chinese restaurant can’t invest the time it takes to get a kid to be world class in some instrument or sport. Plus those are explici

> The parents working at a Chinese restaurant can’t invest the time it takes to get a kid to be world class in some instrument or sport. Plus those are explicitly peacocking, in the sense of being a burden on the rest of your life while having very little chance of being useful to you, other than as a flex to get into an elite college. Very very few people make a living of any kind in sports or in music. Having been that Chinese restaurant kid myself I can promise you it would have been an extraordinarily expensive way to get an education, in comparison to just studying the same old academic books.