I think Papa Burnell really tried to make his autismo narcissistic son into something. I find it very suspicious that Phil,a person that can't follow the most simple of instructions, who can't even cook hamburger helper and eat it without burning his mouth, and who can't even play a game meant for 9 year old's with competence has the intelligence necessary to pass classes like mathematical analysis I and II ( I don't know the name in english ,I'm talking about his university math classes for finance),we also need to remember that if we are to believe him,he was so retarded he couldn't keep up with his computer science classes and yelled at the teacher. Are we to believe that his father,who was a professor in the business part of the university,did not pull strings for his autismo son to graduate? Am I supposed to believe that a man who can't even do addition properly(based of his tips goal errors) passed university level math exams? IMO Phil tried computer science because he heard it pays well,failed miserable,cried to mom and dad about how life is unfair and his dad took care of it by putting him in the business branch of the university and using nepotism to make him graduate.
I have no proof of this of course but I also have no doubts.
After his son got fired from every job he ever had (because he is both useless and has a terrible attitude), his dad got him a job at the helicopter factory where he picked up the phone and took note of what parts a client needs. He fucked this up by being so bad at it he needed to take work home and he also quit his masters degree (which was being paid by the helicopter company). After seeing that Phil is useless,has a terrible attitude and has no desire to improve they fired him from there too,which means he was fired from every job he ever had. Not even nepotism could save Phil,not even a free university degree and a job where his dad is in a position of importance, if I have to guess his dad has given up on him and his mom is still treating him as his little special boy who dindu nuffin,remember that Phil used to go shopping with his mom every week even when he was in university (imagine a man in his 20s shopping with his mom on a weekly basis,weird), we can only go from what Phil tells us but from what he shared with us he was treated like a child his whole life and has had all of his issues solved by his parents even to the point where his dad had to clean his wakando garage for him because it was such a mess Phil didn't used it since he moved there. After he got fired from the helicopter company he was extremely lucky and starting making a ton of money from youtube so he didn't had to grow up and change,and today his chat took the role of his parents, solving all of his issues by giving him over 100k a year on command.
IMO his dad tried nepotism with his autismo son and eventually gave up, while his mom still treats him like a kid and gives him money to solve his issues because overbearing mothers have this thing were their kid needs to be babied his whole life. I know I'm doing arm chair psychology but I remember that one of Phil parents cheated on the other and their marriage is either not doing that well or wasn't doing that well ,when it comes to overbearing parents they have a relationship with their child in which they baby him to get the affection they are not getting from their partner so maybe that happened with Phillipo Burnellio, he is not 100% innocent though since kids willingly participate in that psycho pathological relationship (it's like a vampire,it can only come into your house if you invite him in) The thing with Phil parents,and now his viewers who perform the same function,is that they presented a deal where he never needs to grow up as long as he gives them the attention they want.
This is not an excuse on his behavior btw, he could stop being a lolcow at any time but he was babied and rewarded for bad behavior his whole life (initially by his parents and now by his viewers) so why should he stop being a 39 year old manchild when you keep being rewarded for it and all the haters can be dealt with a LIMB?