[The Mentality of Entitlement]

What makes someone perceive their sense of worth being far superior to another?

 

Basically, it's a function of evolution, particularly for men. Back in the hunter-gather days (most of human history), unjustified confidence and ruthless greed didn't work most of the time... But when it did -- it could work out big (very asymmetric payoff). For that reason, it was the winning strategy from a gene pool perspective. So basically people (or at least men) have been bred for this bad behavior... so that's why they do it... or they do it because it works, even in modern society -- think about politicans, CEOs, Wall Streeters -- most of them (not all) suffer from delusions of their own grandeur...

[America Needs More Dropouts]

I think that people should think about the NPV of an education before they decide to receive one.

 

I didn't even get that far, personally - I dropped out of the fourth grade because it was boring.

 

How do you learn to calculate an NPV if you don't have an education?  Just kidding, you can just eye-ball it. :)