Well to be fair if you're working in a small store in South Chicago at 20 and are looking at kids your age driving Teslas to their lectures at University of Chicago, you know you might as well live in a different world, despite so much still being ahead of you at your age.
Also with all the automation coming, knowing that your SAT score is in the bottom 20% is pretty devastating I bet, despite your reasonably young age.
Right but my point is they are wrong to be devastated. I have so many dumb friends making more money than me haha. I think social media tricks people into thinking they are worse off than they really are. I mean how can a 20 year old in any situation feel that their life is irreversibly broken. It sucks.
To a degree true, but to be honest I knew by age 20 that I'd need to fuck up something fierce not to end up in the top 1%, and I knew people who'd have to fight really hard to be in the top 50%.
Yes, they shouldn't be that depressed obviously, because lots of options are still open and a lot of people make tons of money despite never getting a great education (or even being that smart to be honest), but I can get where they're coming from.
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u/Delheru Aug 05 '19
Well to be fair if you're working in a small store in South Chicago at 20 and are looking at kids your age driving Teslas to their lectures at University of Chicago, you know you might as well live in a different world, despite so much still being ahead of you at your age.
Also with all the automation coming, knowing that your SAT score is in the bottom 20% is pretty devastating I bet, despite your reasonably young age.