I think the blaming is misplaced. Or at least we're inconsistent with it. Why not go ahead and blame the dropouts of whom there was a chance there was one who could have come up with the cure for some dreadful disease.
Or why not accuse artists and others who don't produce real goods of wasting their talents on creating art, some of it, in the form of hollywood movies, or extremely middle brow artists of having wasted opportunity. Or why not come down on plastic surgeons? Why not ask why they didn't become useful surgeons? Or barratry lawyers, why not ask them why they didn't all become constitutional lawyers criminal defense lawyers? Why not bemoan hack journalists for failing serious journalism and affronting the profession?
No, but tech workers must be exceptional and we must expect much more from them than the rest of the population rather than let them pursue what they want as we allow the rest to do without much repudiation.
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I think the blaming is misplaced. Or at least we're inconsistent with it. Why not go ahead and blame the dropouts of whom there was a chance there was one who could have come up with the cure for some dreadful disease.
Or why not accuse artists and others who don't produce real goods of wasting their talents on creating art, some of it, in the form of hollywood movies, or extremely middle brow artists of having wasted opportunity. Or why not come down on plastic surgeons? Why not ask why they didn't become useful surgeons? Or barratry lawyers, why not ask them why they didn't all become constitutional lawyers criminal defense lawyers? Why not bemoan hack journalists for failing serious journalism and affronting the profession?
No, but tech workers must be exceptional and we must expect much more from them than the rest of the population rather than let them pursue what they want as we allow the rest to do without much repudiation.