Comment by balls187
10 months ago
I didn't analyze this for either: rahter what is what is the typical outcome for young humans who achieve a high degree of success/fame before their prefrontal cortex is fully formed.
As we understand more about brain development in kids, I think and under studied aspect are kids who got access to a lot more money than normal typical kids have, and the results such wealth brings.
> I think and under studied aspect are kids who got access to a lot more money than normal typical kids have, and the results such wealth brings.
As opposed to the kids born on planets without atmospheric oxygen, of course. Those kids don't stand a chance.
There's always some advantage others have. Money, good looks, distribution, connections, right place right time.
"Wealth inequality" isn't going to disappear overnight, and lamenting about it won't get us closer to success.
We're all dropped into the Darwinian gradient landscape. Some of us have better starting positions. While we sit and wait for policy decisions to make things easier, our job remains to find gradients that aren't too steep, aren't over-explored by the masses, and that give us some modicum of joy to spend our lives upon.
The minnows and gazelles have it much worse than us. Praying mantises, anglerfish, and the hosts for the parasitoid wasps are practically living in a daily Kafkaesque horror. Meanwhile we're in our own dopamine drip Disneyland with near-infinite degrees of freedom and plenty of years on the clock (for most of us).
Seneca said some good things about this.
I apologize. I didn't provide additional context, and unfortunately you made an flawed conclusion about my premise wasting your time with an irrelevant argument.
I'm not lamenting wealth inequality, nor discussing other advantages (real or perceived).
I think that achieving success and wealth (e.g. not simply being born with it) has an impact on the development of a human brain, based in large part the behavior of rich/famous/successful young adults, AND what their personalities ultimately become once the have fully formed brains (~27 years old).
Specific to these teenagers, how will effectively becoming "rich" and successful at such a young age change the final formation of their brains, and ultimately shape their behavior?
I think you missed the part about "[achieving] a high degree of success", in particular the achievement. They are referring to young people who make a successful business rather than those who are born to parents who made a successful business.