it also goes both ways. asian education systems are notoriously brutal but if you look at international testing, they don't score significantly better than countries like finland or estonia with relaxed european education systems. so theres an upper limit to education rigor as well but i saw this firsthand. my boomer landlord grew up in an era with restricted labour, he was able to get a job as an insurance broker at all-state without even finishing his finance degree at a small local university, and ended up making mid 6 figures in the 90s and 2000s. this would be impossible now because even though he was great at his job, the minimum bar is so much higher to enter the field. he'd probably be a manager at a supermarket or something if he was a millennial
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