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psudo · 3454 days ago · link · · parent · post: “Just be yourself” is cruel, fraudulent advice to give young people - Salon.com
The thing is I don't think most anyone actually ends up following their dreams, but either directly follows their parents' dreams for them or goes in the direct opposite direction. And then when you mix in the fact that unions lost the propaganda war so badly that skilled blue collar work is considered so undesirable you have pick an intellectual pursuit with the constant refrain of a college degree being the only thing necessary to have the American Dream you end up with tons of people either not hacking their way through med/law school or pursuing Art History or something else that was never meant to produce tons of marketable jobs.