Edited to say: I do appreciate, that not everyone has access to land and a garden, especially with how we choose to live now. But too many parents are so willing to just absolve full child rearing to the state via the education system. And the education system isn't about preparing children for the real world, it's about tests, grades, passing and teachers abusing their position to spread their beliefs, which in and of themselves come from a place of privelidge, being coddled from the real world, doing a crappy job for NMW and struggling on very little money. I'm not saying living paycheque-to-paycheque is a good thing, and I have nothing but respect for people who manage that and still put their kids in a place where they do better. That is to be applauded, and to me is the epitome of the American Dream
But you've got a generation of kids who have been brainwashed and coddled. Who don't know anything of practical use and have no grip at all on what life in the real world is like. I would never wish for a child to grow up in a poor home, being aware of a grinding constant lack of money. But the brats kicking off hardest are the ones who have never experienced hardship in any form, beyond the petty, trivial, nonsense first world issues that are so prevalent today. Being misgendered, finding out that history is fucking brutal and sucky, and realising that no, you're never going to make megabucks as an "influencer" or an egirl are about the most petty, tiny non issues ever, and we've got a whole generation of crybabies and snowflakes who equate these issues with LITERAL ACTUAL MURDER.
We're reaping what we've sown as a society.
