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Mostly agree, just a minor nitpick > he probably would have preferred to go to school and play with his friends. Not all kids want to do kiddie things. At 10y
by makeitdouble 3y ago
Mostly agree, just a minor nitpick
> he probably would have preferred to go to school and play with his friends.
Not all kids want to do kiddie things. At 10yo or so, if I had the competence and choice between doing actual work for 8 hour at my dad's office, and going to school with the other kids, I'd totally have chosen the former.
I don't think kids should work or skip school, but their personal preference is probably more varied than we account for.
- LtWorf 3y ago> I'd totally have chosen the former. Yeah, for 1 day… then you'd know what it was about and would have preferred the less boring alternative.
- makeitdouble 3y agoHonestly I always preferred to be doing something than sitting in a room listening to lectures. In college I pulled all the tricks in the book to convert real projects/internships into units, and I'd be seriously depressed if I had to go back to school. I think that's also why I have such a hatred for regular in-person corporate meetings.
- 2-3-7-43-1807 3y agomaybe you should watch a documentary about the vietnam war if you believe a child prefers that over a peaceful upbringing.
- qball 3y ago>and would have preferred the less boring alternative Work pays a wage and you're actually doing something objectively useful. That money can be used to make the time you're not at work much better. School [for the people who don't need to be there] does not pay and you're doing nothing objectively useful; it's a time-suck that leaves you broke anyway.
- LtWorf 3y ago> objectively useful I'm not sure most office workers feel this way about their work.