‘Dropping out’ isn’t a Plan

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The following career-choice diagram looks silly:

finance

“Go into finance” is a career plan; “Don’t go into finance” is the absence of a plan, so it shouldn’t be a choice-node. It makes more sense for the diagram to look like:


finance-better

Similarly, many people seem to implicitly use something like the following career-choice diagram when thinking about school:


school

However, “don’t go to school” isn’t a career plan, so it shouldn’t be a choice node. The diagram should look more like:


school better