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I'm not sure you are really using "independence" in the same way as the article if you saying that you are not "independent" when you are not living with your p
by resoluteteeth 4y ago
I'm not sure you are really using "independence" in the same way as the article if you saying that you are not "independent" when you are not living with your parents and working 9-5? Maybe you are thinking more about financial independence but that's not really the issue the article is talking about, which is more abut children learning to be independent from their parents.
It seems like the kind of independence being discussed is probably orthogonal from career prospects except in the sense that kids who can't go to college and get jobs that pay enough may not be able to become independent from their parents for longer.
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoI have updated the comment to better reflect my situation, during university I didn't explore or live like my peers because I didn't have a car nor any form of allowance to go out. I just stayed at the labs and studied. I didn't eat out, but I ate at home when we had something to eat. I grew up with very few life skills and what the article described, I didn't have any reasonable socialisation until I became 17, when every decision I made was scrutinized, from where I was going to who I was meeting with and so on. I didn't , nor could I for that matter, do anything like the article described simply because it was too expensive. What I am trying to get to is that it's a lot easier to make decisions that lean towards independence if the cost of such decisions is actually very small, and with absence of financial safety, one can not simply act in such a manner because the calculus is far more complex.