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That’s a specious argument. Most parents (mine included) put massive pressure on working age kids to get summer jobs to fill those hours. The incentive for the
by ipython 6y ago
That’s a specious argument. Most parents (mine included) put massive pressure on working age kids to get summer jobs to fill those hours. The incentive for the kid is of course spending money too.
I would imagine with massive closures and unemployment that supply of summer jobs is close to zero now.
I suppose in our kids generation there is a mitigating circumstance- the wide availability of legal teenage heroin aka video games. Today’s “bread and circus” of inexpensive, endless content and games will keep us placated indefinitely as far as I can tell.
- pasquinelli 6y agoI know a couple people with teenage kids and they don't put pressure on their kids to get a summer job. My daugter's twelve, and i don't expect to pressure her to get a job in a couple years. I don't see much point-- the jobs she would be after are needed by people with rent to pay. Even when i was in highschool it seemed about 50:50 of kids working over the summer. That was before the current wave of unemployment, before 2008 too.