i don't mean to spread bad vibes on the TL but this is grotesque. these people are destroying their children
not happy that there isn't a single word of a quote in this article *from the kids themselves* either but maybe the parents blocked it
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there was a tweet on the TL earlier about PUA and another tweet about gacha games and it's all kinda the same thing. "goodhart's demon." optimize for a proxy of the thing you actually want so hard that it turns you into a monster
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capitalism is like how speedrunning lets you find all the weird bugs in a game except it's bugs in human psychology and it's incredibly tragic instead of funny
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oh man I knew a guy in college who was relatively big time in baseball in hs, fucked him up bad (although good news is that the reason I knew is because we were in the same group working through stuff)
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father really wanted it for him, spent tens of thousands on tutors and such, lots of pressure after a game (shoulda coulda woulda), traveling all over the continent doing Baseball Stuff ... so swept up in it and didn't realize until later how much he hated it
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"Students win admission to these places by converting their teenage years — or their parents converting their teenage years — into a stress-strewn gauntlet of meritocratic striving. [...] So even the winners in the meritocratic competition are wounded by it"
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Sports psychologists, mental health challenges, binge-drinkimg, and burnout. Highly competitive youth sports sounds like it's taking a toll on the kids.
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