In the teenage world you win by perfect performance on easy tests (wearing just the right clothes, answering multiple-choice questions correctly), while in the adult world you win by adequate performance on hard tests.
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If you define "real world" as startups, maybe. In corporate environments, many people are insulated from customers and the only people who can provide feedback are colleagues... who for a variety of reasons may not feel comfortable or even safe doing so.
Even in big companies the ultimate judges are customers and mother nature. It's true that layers of bureaucracy can often mitigate the shock though.
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In large enough organizations, layers of bureaucracy can protect the ineffective long enough for them to reach the ends of their careers and retire. Eventually they collapse under their own weight, but that's not a great outcome for e.g. governments.
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It’s because school is boring compared to phones. Spare me the complex social science
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Rent seeking monopolies are well insulated from reality wrt to quality of service.
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