Posted by alexandra_k on June 5, 2018, at 7:25:41
In reply to Re: four year degrees, posted by alexandra_k on June 5, 2018, at 6:44:13
and i just keep coming back to this thing of how 'not everyone can be a ballerina. the world can't support that many ballerinas'.
and the unwillingness / incapacity to see that not everyone wants to be a ballerina. there are more parents who want their kids to be ballerinas than kids who want to be ballerinas. there are more kids who like to play at ballet than train ballet.
ronnie coleman on one interpretation... everybody wants to be a bodybuilder... damn near ain't nobody wants to lift no heavy *ss weights.
but the reason why we tell people they can't do x or y is z is because it would be unsustainable if everybody got to do what everybody wanted to do.
but the way things are at present is unsustainable.
i just don't understand or see how people think that anything other than people doing what people want to do is sustainable. that's precisely what is sustainable.
of course there is work to be done on incentive structures...
but there's an awful lot of people who just want to mess with others and control them.
what do you do about that?
i don't get it. i don't get those people. that's a pathology i simply don't understand.
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