Would have loved to know that before being pressured by the entire school system around me to pick the high school with the best feeder stats and the highest graduation rate. Before spending literally the last two years of high school mostly just working on getting into college.

Does it not once occur to people who play the incredibly tired libertarian lines that in fact we do live in a society that exerts constant coercion on how we lead our lives? As unhelpful as this rhetorical frame is, taxes aren't the only thing that is being stolen... so is agency.