Maybe a better question to ask is, "What is success?" We tend to focus on the trappings / assets of success - title, salary, neighborhood, spouse - while neglec

Maybe a better question to ask is, "What is success?" We tend to focus on the trappings / assets of success - title, salary, neighborhood, spouse - while neglecting the liabilities - stress, debts, time demands. And granted, we fetishize outliers such as Gates, but we also fetishize by an order of magnitude greater the "American Dream Death March" that begins once some authority figure identifies an aptitude which might become a prestigious / high-paying job in the future. Slate, here's a clue - if the education racket weren't so predatory, the Dropout Fallacy wouldn't have so many fans.