[doubloon]

having a kid work basically 14 hour days for years and years so they can get into the best school based on the criteria of the ivy league, it becomes very easy to downplay the importance of communication and social skills, like empathy, play, dealing with difficult people, emotional intelligence, etc etc.

this is how people like Sam Bankman Fried and Caroline Ellison develop into having sociopathic patterns of behavior and dysfunctional realtionships, just constantly being pushed to play a game of artificial metrics from the time they are children.

its almost like taking away childhood from people and having a form of child labor.

[lacrimacida]

Sam Bankman doesn’t strike me as a hard working student though his upbringing could have the expectation to outdo his parents, both of them professors in Ivi League schools if I remember correctly. The appetite for risk may be a byproduct of that though…

[musicale]

IIRC they teach/taught at Stanford, which is in the Pac-12 (until next year, when it joins the ACC) rather than the Ivy League.