We know more about our solar system than our oceans. We might have mapped a bit of the floor, but we don't know what is between the surface and the ocean floor.

We are both actively exploring the stars and the ocean. There's still a lot we don't know and there's still plenty of species being discovered in rainforest all the time.

Bacterias and viruses are also something that you can never finish exploring and there are for sure weird creatures like tardigrades that are still undiscovered.

You're just in time to discover genetics, epigenetics, biomechanics of nutrition, chemistry, biochemistry, how to make custom creatures from DNA building blocks, protein folding applications, mysteries of how the brain works and even math as mature as it is also has tons of undiscovered parts.

Sure you might be too late and to early for a couple of specific things but science discovery is absolutely exploding and random average Joe types are discovering things all the time. I think on the contrary now is one of the most likely things where you can just flat out discover something about the world that nobody has discovered before.

I wanted to be an electrical engineer, then I saw all the math and settled for electrician, then I saw all the math and settled for Janitor

It's also possible that these aren't all of the available answers and they only selected the ones they thought are interesting.

You need to give yourself more credit. You didn't become a failure, it was within you the whole time; you were always a failure...

That concludes my Pep Talk®

It says all the children were given an option to pick up to 3 answers. Given the small sample size, it's likely there were questioned by the same person and that person didn't convey that to children properly.

Or they are all very focused on only 1 path.

I think it’s pretty obvious this is a subset of the answers.

So it seems like, given 3 picks, only 1% of kids are choosing YouTuber as an option. That doesn’t really seem ridiculous.

Edit: it’s 3000 kids total, not per country. So I guess 3% if these are the only 3 countries included.

They'd better, the fiduciary responsibility of the corporate entity has the one, and only one requirement.

The cancer, deaths, depression, poverty, oppression, etc. is just for fun!

Thwn I'd expect higher figures for musicians, swayed by the top .01% that suck up all the fame and royalties.

I wonder if kids pick that because its one job that they understand and attribute positively (to some degree - "a teacher is someone that teaches kids like me at a school and we have fun") whereas jobs that their parents have are more nebulous and more negative in their mind ("my parents leave for the day and then come back angry? I don't want to do that").

I know a former teacher in China who told me that it's a very respected profession there, in the same way that doctors and lawyers are respected in the west.

I knew lots of kids who wanted to be teachers. Ask a kid that age to list their favorite people and their teacher will pop up often, because it’s someone they know. Teaching is something tangible to them.

I also knew several adults who wanted to be a teacher, but quit shortly after starting because they literally couldn’t afford it due to unreasonably low wages. We should really treat good teachers better.

For teachers, I guess they're the biggest figure for students as they grow up. Confucian culture emphasizes enormous respect, and tbf, conformity to teachers.

I grew up wanting to be a YouTuber, and now work as a professor somewhere in East Asia with deep Confucian influence. The teacher-student dynamics here is truly shit.

For sure, their space program feats and plans are incredibly exciting, and things we might see in our lifetime. There's a hopeful star-trek-esque optimism about space rn.

I'm not sure about teachers salaries, I'd have to look it up, but I do know teachers are well respected societally.

Not China but in my country teachers would often get benefits like how US soldiers do.

So for example some apartments had reduced rent and most private schools would accept your children for free and pay off lunch, clubs, school trip fees, etc.

So even tho teachers weren't rich they weren't completely on their own either. Maybe a similar thing happens over there?

This might be a hot take, but I think it started with tying internet identities to real identities.

Unless I misunderstand, in China it's illegal to distribute VPNs, but simply using one and accessing the wider net is fine. That implementation isn't great, but it could also be a lot worse. Effectively it means anyone who's tech savvy enough can leave the walled garden whenever they like with practically no consequence. Though, it still requires some group of people assume the legal risk of setting up and hosting the VPN infrastructure.

I feel like there must be some means of achieving the same effect without criminalizing people just for providing a service. Like, defaulting to a garden of public and private webpages that meat the standard, but still with some means of leaving that garden provided you pass a minor techincal barrier to entry.

Also forcing every social media site and glorified-website-app to default to chronological sort every time you close the browser tab or leave the app. It's a simple change, but it would do a lot.

most of the influencers i follow do both and i was getting the sense last night that some of them do the former to make the latter more bearable.

I mean not when the kid pretending to be a roach bum on twitch makes more than I make in a lifetime every single day.

If the turns were tabled - as they were 20 years ago - you'd still have kids wanting to be soul crushingly rich.

Doing science in cool jungles sounds much more fun, while being both safer and more if an adventure.

Deep sea seems like about the same risk but closer to home.