The thing that has always amazed/disgusted me is how our education system trains people to be passive consumers, and to leave school "looking for a job", as if

The thing that has always amazed/disgusted me is how our education system trains people to be passive consumers, and to leave school "looking for a job", as if jobs somehow grew on trees and would eventually fall when ripe. Until people learn from the cradle that they're not owed a job by anyone, but have to create value of some sort, either for someone else, or for themselves, we'll have this same sad situation. Someone "stuck at home" is in the perfect situation to start creating value that other people are willing to pay for: mowing lawns, baking bread, making furniture/simple machines in their home workshop, using whatever raw materials and machinery their forebears have amassed and are freely available, but, most of all, using their brains and their willpower.