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Establishment culture: NYC parents paying huge sums to send two year olds to private preschools, while advocating public for others
Emerging culture: homeschool your kids, let them read books & play games, then set them up as contract programmers on Upwork once they can code
Emerging culture: homeschool your kids, let them read books & play games, then set them up as contract programmers on Upwork once they can code
Could also be Behance or 99 Designs or another microtask marketplace for different forms of digital labor.
Point is to get kids to learn by doing as soon as possible. This is the secret of many top tech people. They were building real things even in middle/high school.
Point is to get kids to learn by doing as soon as possible. This is the secret of many top tech people. They were building real things even in middle/high school.
Save the money you would have wasted on private schools and even college, and give it to them as a lump sum when they reach age of majority.
That becomes their seed funding. Far better than incinerating money on an increasingly useless diploma in a rigged higher ed system.
That becomes their seed funding. Far better than incinerating money on an increasingly useless diploma in a rigged higher ed system.
