Even ignoring all the "EvilCorp spending $billions to make video games even more addictive" stuff...what else are current-day western children allowed to do, th

Even ignoring all the "EvilCorp spending $billions to make video games even more addictive" stuff...what else are current-day western children allowed to do, that feels like useful work, and provides short-term senses of agency / accomplishment / self-worth? In my childhood, we were at least free to roam the neighborhood - which contained plenty of good child playmate prospects, with similar freedom. Or help dad to build & maintain our house. (I can't recall that he ever brought in an electrician / plumber / HVAC tech / whatever, even for major stuff.) But that mid-20th-century suburban idyll was still a huge self-worth downgrade from my parents' childhoods. They did farm & domestic labor, at scale, in economic circumstances where kids being good workers was very obviously important to their family's access to food, shelter, and clothing.