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It's great to see rote grade-grinding (in HS, no less) mistaken for achievement, and rampant credential-grubbing seen as the path to material success & respectability. It's exactly that kind of mindset that for 300 years has made the USA the place it is today.

Disclaimer: actual American

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I wasn't around for all of the last 300 years of US history as you were it seems, but I suspect the current aversion to doing work and things that seem hard would make many prior generations of Americans cry or potentially laugh at us.

I was born here in the 70s and even I see a massive attitude shift. I wonder what folks a generation ahead of me think.

Actual American. Ha ha. That's rich.

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