essentially, musk is saying that if people need school to motivate them then they failed already.  problem is, usa has been on an anti-intellectual spiral for decades and the wealth gap is so obtuse it vehemently does not favor any form of intelligence. why work to become an engineer for money, deal with all that work stress, when you can do the same learning process to scam people out of their cash? either way you get money, but the second means you get money for literally less effort. all our society values is money, and so this is the crop our society reaps.
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