A large portion of what the males used to learn of great workplace value until this feminized America of the last 40 or 50 years was learned in simple outdoors play, they learned how to find their place in the neighborhood gang of boys during their play and rough housing, they also learned creativity with building and fixing, and about dealing with setbacks and injuries and competition among the boy groups, they learned the natural states of pecking orders, leadership, followers, and those in-between and how to argue and disagree within limits, being outdoors with boys of all sizes and types and some variations of ages before their adult filters and concealments were developed, was a deep immersion into raw life, at least a decade of it.
It would probably shock you how many Gen-Zers are going into the trades. Every kid who played with Legos is building houses now or wants to do so. We have Gen-Z’ers flipping houses here.