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Many schools in China require girls to cut their hairs short, so they don’t spend all their time on it and can study instead.

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That's a pretty good idea. Has anyone explored the option of disallowing friendships and romance? I think kids waste far too much time socializing and pursuing young love. That's a tremendous amount of wasted study time.

FWIW, I did spot this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Akikun1124/status/1219144685299490816

>街で男女と1m以上離れる

>恋愛禁止のため

>（公立高校）

Basically (as far as my elementary Japanese understands it), a public school has ruled that boys and girls should keep a distance of at least a metre in town in order to forbid relationships.

I think you're being sarcastic, but in some Asian countries disallowing romance is actually pretty common, even in high schools.

I can't tell if you are serious or not.

Life isn't all about studying. We don't want a socially stunted generation that is so optimized for academic success they lose important lessons along the way. And to be honest, you can't stop teenagers anyway.

"Celibacy" might be a relevant keyword?

There's probably some study of highly successful people that shows that the sociopaths with no friends tend to become CEOs so people want to follow in their footsteps to get the maximum score in life.

That’s either genius satire or terrifying psychopathy.

To think that many of them then end up in big tech makes me wonder if their oppressed needs causes them to make decisions that impose the same oppression of ideas/joy on their customers (basically, the rest of the world).

Edit: Not saying that it would, I'm just questioning the possibility of it.

It is more like high school pressure to conform

If you think people have “oppressed” needs caused by the rules around them, perhaps you should reassess which aspects of your own life are oppressed.

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