Ineffiencies

It doesn’t seem to make sense to me how the world works.

If you think about it, essentially, what we are doing is to tell our mid teens, at that age, to think of what they want to work as for the rest of their lives, and gear their entire education towards the achievement of that goal.

So, assuming kids become really self aware and self conscious around 5, they have to use their last 10 years of experience of being kids and being alive in this world, to make a decision on what their profession will be for the next 50 years.

Am I the only one who thinks something is missing somewhere here?

Come on, most of their childhood would be spent climbing trees, playing catch, falling off bikes, peeing in their nappies, spilling food on their bibs, telling lies to avoid school, etc. Hardly the inspirational stuff meant to create someone who can really contribute to mankind.

We end up with people having to pick their future career and specialize in the education of it since that young age, and then, being trapped, they cannot escape (e.g. fear of parents berating them for wasting their $, fear of being too old to change etc). Hence we have a population who are not passionate for their work or who don’t love it, not competent at it, not achieving their potential etc.

People are not happy. While young they might have an artistic flair that if developed properly, would be good enough to make a living from. But that creativity being undeveloped, discouraged, stifled, arrested, and forced to make way for a lifetime of accounting work, we have one very unhappy accountant.

Isn’t that a very inefficient way to harness one’s workforce? By right, the most efficiently harnessed workforce is one where every single one of the working population is engaged in and geared towards a job that they love, are very good at, and helps them achieve their professional capacities. Every resource is maximized towards the focused attainment of that goal. That country will be one that is stretched, and very high achieving, very prosperous, and its citizens very happy.

Of course such hypothetical scenarios cannot exist in real life. But it just highlights that the more we try to address this gap, the more efficient our country can be, and hence the rate of development will be accelerated. Otherwise, we will have economic inefficiencies and social imperfections, leading to midlife crisis, and various other social ailments.