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by keiferski 84 days ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but I think this is actually good advice. It's great to be a free-thinker and question things, but I do think there is some (monetary) value in just not asking too many questions, but optimizing to be the best at whatever you're doing.

Edit: to give an example, I probably would have done better in school had I spent less time questioning the education system and more time just accepting it and trying to get good grades.

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Yeah, succeed in the system, fuck everybody else. If the system is making the world a worse place, all the better, you can take advantage since you’re in the system. All that until you find yourself spat out by the system and get to experience what you’ve been part of with no recourse.
Your interpretation of the comment in this way says more about you than anything else. Because that's not what I or the parent comment said.
and your conclusion on this situation says a lot about your current state of economic privilege and/or ignorance
The trick is to compartmentalize