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Episode 517: The Troubled Teen Industry Part I: Elan School - Tough Love

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The Sunk Cost Fallacy

The average student at Elan school was there for 18 months, but some could be there as long as four years. Following a strict social hierarchy where the students were made to police and inform on themselves,. everyone was split into two classes, strengths and non-strings. Non-strength talked to a strength without being addressed first, or if they talked to another non-strength at all, breaking any of the guilds would result in severe punishment.

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