>Parents might be old, but they're not dumb. People underestimate older people. They aren't dumb, but many in that generation are willfully ignorant. There wa

>Parents might be old, but they're not dumb. People underestimate older people. They aren't dumb, but many in that generation are willfully ignorant. There was a great article in the NYT recently titled "Why high class people get away with incompetence": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/social-class-confidence.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/social-class-conf... If you've gone your entire life being able to bluster away criticism or force someone to do things for you ("delegate"), it can lead to a type of person who is not teachable, and when they inevitably suffer a breach will blame everyone but themselves.