It's the default because society has told them that for multiple generations. Your proposal is already happening, with increasing numbers of mid teens making de

It's the default because society has told them that for multiple generations. Your proposal is already happening, with increasing numbers of mid teens making decisions with the future in mind. At the same time, we see teens get more depressed and having worse mental health. Teens are expected to fight uphill for many years to get what previous generations got doing virtually the same as young people are today. Worse, we can't exclude a causative relationship between the mental health and having to consider their future that early. It isn't controversial. The real question is to what degree this is victim blaming rather than productive for the health of younger generations. Turning them all into desired blue collars, programmers, etc. isn't going to get them where they want when even software developers struggle to achieve what their parents did without doing a lick of homework. The ball isn't in their court.