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Maybe, but I question the idea that ambitious people shouldn’t have children if they don’t want to spend large amounts of time with them. It’s bad for society if the top performers don’t have families.

It’s also not remotely the case historically, where men would be gone working for weeks or months in order to provide for their families. Instead, I’d suggest that this obsession with maximizing time is of the same cultural source as ‘helicopter parenting’ and the ‘more = better, always’ mentality of modernity.



For most of history families lived and worked in the same place as farmers.

Top performers aren't necessarily the ones working crazy hours.




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