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Free will/choice is one thing. I think there are also plenty of people that grow up totally obsessed with their art and feel they need to be a part of it, like they have to go to Columbia Uni to write or act, or be a historian, etc. It's an interest gone out of control.

Even if they do that and rack up the loans, they may go into the real world naively and end up not making it big. Ever.

I guess my thought is, there's something creating that desire or urgency too. As System of a Down put it, "Advertising causes need."