• YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Is it likely that someone would not want to be a banker in their 20s and change their mind in their 30s?

    I didn’t want kids in my 20s. Got them in my late 30s. Best decision ever. Your mileage may vary.

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      3 days ago

      Is it likely that someone would not want to be a banker in their 20s and change their mind in their 30s

      Yes, obviously. Some people want to be bankers, some don’t, and that’s OK. The only weird thing is when bankers say that everyone will want to be a banker one day, and even if you don’t like it, you have to anyway, you will have no choice but to love it later.

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        3 days ago

        Except both their parents were ‘bankers’. As were yours and mine. And our all grandparents. Indeed, every single predecessor, ever.

        That’s where it falls down, regardless of how one might feel about parenthood. It’s just not a very good analogy.

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              3 days ago

              Analogue, you see, isn’t supposed to be 1-1 recreation of the thing we’re talking about. It’s an instrument that suppose to focus on one aspect of the phenomenon, exaggerate it, divorce it from the original connotations so it’s easier to talk about the aspect itself, without being emotionally attached to the whole picture. “But in this other aspect it’s not like the original” therefore isn’t a rebuttal of the argument. It’s like saying that an architectural model of the center for kids that can’t read good is stupid because it’s too small and kids can’t actually enter the building.