Elementary school teachers would read to their classes in the 80s.
They always picked books like that Shel Silvertein shit whose message
appealed more to adults than children. I remember being bored into fits
of rage and thinking "This is making me dumber. I want to go outside."
special word to distinguish those who drop out to work
We say those students are "on leave." Gates and Zuckerberg often
commend Harvard for its flexible leave policy. Given Harvard's
overambitious undergrads, the bureaucratic overhead of granting a hiatus
is a small price for the glory-by-association of a potential Microsoft
or Facebook. Come to Harvard. Even if you don't graduate, you'll be
rich and famous!
Try picking up the pieces after a massive hurricane when money can't buy
a sudden scarcity of manual skill. Max Brooks captures this in World
War Z when white collar workers become cannon fodder in the zombie apocalypse.
You spent your entire life training for a job that assumed a silicon
goalpost. Don't be mad when society moves it.
We in the software sales biz call them "champions." Ultimately everyone just wants to go home at 5, and a new system jeopardizes that. So the only way to make headway is to get a disgruntled insider to move the chains.