Something I find obvious but am realizing is very non-consensus: almost no one should ever go to college, and people should start working at age 14-16 instead (what I did) 1/ it's a very modern idea that you're not supposed to start your active life until you're 23-25, and it's quite harmful imo. You have all these 20-somethings that are basically babies — and worse: not only do they not realize they're late, they actually are lulled into thinking that they have all the time in the world ahead of them, that "their 20s are for fucking around." This is also an obvious and big contributor to the fertility crisis. 2/ People think that this is justified by modern jobs being much more complex / intellectually demanding. But Ben Franklin started working full-time at 12, Carnegie at 13, Rockefeller at 16. You can't exactly argue these folks weren't smart or sophisticated, or their jobs not extremely complex. 3/ More pragmatically, ask yourself who you'd rather hire between a 22 year-old who's been working for 7 years, and one who's straight out of college. I view the former as basically senior, probably even ready to lead a team — the latter as next to useless (which is why new grads struggle to find a job so much). It's basically common knowledge that college years are mostly spent fucking around / going to parties — insane that we accept this as normal, and that's before even talking about the hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt that people get into for these party years. So, not only people spend less of their time acquiring useful skills while in college — what little they spent is _spent less well_, because it's A) removed from a concrete context B) taught by far-left boomers with very outdated skills (recently met a new grad from a design school who was using Photoshop(!!) to design mobile apps).