Why is agency a precious resource?
Not Overthinking
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Embracing the Opposite of Agency in Childhood
Childhood contains the age where one can intuite very well how the world works, while being prevented from acting upon it meaningfully. We shall be thinking much harder about making sure children can make meaningful contributions to the world. Seizing opportunity requires opportunity to exist at all. And i suspect the down playing of agency in childhood not only creates fewer opportunities for great people, it must also create more marginal people.
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