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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don't disagree that capitalism can host molochian optimisation but the link to capitalism isn't v clear in this particular story, to me.
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I mean, athletes were/are abused for nationalist glory in some countries, but here its pretty clearly capitalist: the parents are doing it out of fear for their kids’ future earnings, and that fear is stoked by private coaches and schools whose pay/prestige depends on that fear
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This ain't capitalism my man.
Can't you see that its state interventionist+hierarchical control?
Nothing about capitalism demands unnecessary credentialing... thats on regulation from top down...