If the problem is "X is hard", then "X is easier if you do Y" is good information

If that were true, then concepts like these would not exist:

• an ineffective strategy

• false hope

• false sense of security

• a waste of time

If spending 5 dollars on a small chance of a good thing is a Pascal's mugging, the suggestion that spending tens of thousands of dollars plus multiple years in academia is a good idea for rare people to meet teach other is an all out Pascal's burglary.

Your arguments are getting ridiculous. I'm ending this discussion.