I was possibly in the same situation, sick of working full time too to pay to hang out with a bunch of kids who are spoilt and complain about too many things.
A few reasons I gave myself to dropout(defer) were I don't think I want to work for people who thought a degree was essential and only smart people had them.
I wanted to work for myself quite a bit. I also wanted to have a go at a startup which was impossible when trying to do time wasting uni assignments.
I knew I could go back if I had to, a year break would be a fair amount of time to see if there were limitations with no degree.
I know that I still have an advantage over uni students whereas they only learn when their force to by lecturers. Where as I like learning and do it daily at my own free will.
I've been off for a year and had a great time and not having a degree hasn't stopped me from doing what I wanted to do.
I don't think computers can think, thinking is only a human perception and most of it is useless. Being creative to direct an orchestra that other humans may like is pointless to survival. Too think I think you need to have a purpose, If I were to give humans a naive purpose I would say to find the meaning of life through survival and attaining great knowledge. I believe a machine will be able to do this better eventually if not soon. All it needs is problem solving and to start with a set of resources that its allowed to use.
I personally believe that your environment makes all the choices for you. If you were locked in a blank box from birth, what choices could or would you make?
Poor people are not stupid and if you think that I guess I would label you stupid. Before you jump on your horse and say I would work hard and study hard to get out of a shit life, what do you even mean by that? You would be an entirely different person raised in those circumstances.
Also some people make it out of the vicious cycle but I believe thats only luck based and they've just happened to meet some people who have said some useful things.
The article itself doesn't really mean anything and I wouldn't say teenage pregnancy is related to evolution. In third world countries having more children is probably the best solution if you lack an education and survive off labour.
To be the man who donates the most and the man who owns the least, at the same time.
Bottlenecks: My empathy is ridiculed by the way I live. I believe I can make more of a difference in a position of power then if I just move somewhere and work as a volunteer for the rest of my life. Though to get to power I have to live in this world which I hate.
