It is only in fairly recent times that children.
Have the luxury of not working from a young age.
Ask any one that grew up on a farm.
And those children that grew up working or doing chores wind up with excellent work ethic as adults.
Today parents think its just great to give that little 5 year old kid a cell phone. And this kid grows up being a cell phone zombie walking around continuously texting or whatever. And can’t hold a job.
I had my first paying job at 14. At 15 I worked on farms. At 16 I went out of state as a grain truck driver. At 17 I had a full time job at a gas station. At 18 is was Army time.
Yep... half of our founders were managing a farm, working in dad’s business, in a non-consensual apprenticeship etc at 9 or 10 years old. David Farragut was a USN Midshipman at 9, and at age 11 in the War of 1812, they handed him a British ship captured as a prize and had him in charge of sailing it back to port!