# Review ## Review Date 2022-05-20 ## What is the thesis? Smart people in the US are siphoned to a few reliable career paths which dilutes the job growth and opportunities for others. Those are: - medicine - law - financial services - consulting The marginal benefit to society is minimal. The bigger benefit to society would be if a higher percent would be entrepreneurs. ## Am I convinced and why? I think there's a lot of merit to this argument. I think that these paths are hard but they come with risk, and that when we are so leveraged and we live in a society without social support feelings, we cannot easily take the risks we need to take in order to ## Summarize the argument ## What is the other side of the argument? ## What else do I wonder about? ## Action ## When do I want to stumble across this? ## Source: Yang, A. (2014). _Smart people should build things: How to restore our culture of achievement, build a path for entrepreneurs, and create new jobs in America_ (First edition). Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.