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take piano. you can’t just BUY piano skills or even buy appreciation for classical piano. take wine. it has both a money barrier and a time barrier

take beer and coffee. they reduce the money requirements when a sub-distinction between high-class poors and low-class poors are needed. pure time gap gatekeeping.

what about the 8yr old asian math piano genius prodigy who burns out in adulthood and just kinda plays dota or w/e all day?

i suspect there are 2 things at play here. one is that running a marathon as if it were a sprint matches the same “get started early” heuristic for exponential processes

just like credit cards are exactly the same as wealth until payback time, this “early start” doesn’t actually start an exponential process but burns the candle from both ends

the other is that relationships are also exponential. parentally mediated early-start rocket bootstrapping probably DOES trigger some exponential clock, it’s just very inefficient and drains energy from other areas such as people skills

this is bc time gapped exponential processes are THE secret that allow you to do some upfront work and sit back and enjoy the bountiful harvest gardening wo realizing this time leverage leads one to overpay unnecessarily

yes the tiger mom makes sacrifices herself but imagine if u could get the same tiger child result with less of the seething-resentment-for-parents-spilling-into-subconscious-self-and-self-race-hate