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The American Enterprise Institute published a notecard-sized piece they call the "success sequence", which I think would fit your bill. [1] 1. Finish high scho
by hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
The American Enterprise Institute published a notecard-sized piece they call the "success sequence", which I think would fit your bill. [1]
1. Finish high school.
2. Get (and keep) a full-time job once you finish school.
3. Get married before you have children (if you have children).
Their analysis concluded that 97% of millennials in the US who follow this three step sequence are not poor by the time they reach 31 or so.
There isn't anything specific in that sequence about drugs, but I imagine the subgroups for whom drug use would be problematic would also find it hard to follow that sequence while using them.
[1]: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IFS-MillennialSuccessSequence-Final.pdf?x88519 https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IFS-Millennia...
- jisnsm 2y agoMaybe they are confusing cause and effect there.
- smnrchrds 2y agoIt seems more descriptive than prescriptive. I am sure it is true, but it seems hardly useful. It's like saying "we finally found the success sequence for breaking into upper middle class in three easy steps: 1) get a high paying job, 2) get raises every year matching or exceeding inflation , 3) avoid layoffs". Or the good old-fashioned advice for becoming rich: "buy low, sell high". These are all 100% true, but also 100% useless.
- pmdulaney 2y agoTo say it is 100% useless would be to say that the moral training of children is useless. You're not really that cynical, are you?