[Gaffer]

What you're really saying is that they are now spending their lives training to be wards of the government. If you can't maintain a car, can't mow grass and fix a mower problem, repair basic faults in the home, then you are a ward of the state because you have no alternative but depending on government.

When you don't know anything about the basics of how things work, how to fix things, what works and what doesn't, the government can tell you what lightbulbs to buy, what toilets to have, what appliances you can/should have, what cars you need and so on. Frankly, most of these no-learners will be weeded out in the big depression that is coming.

[Gordon Pym]

What you're really saying is that they are now spending their lives training to be wards of the government. If you can't maintain a car, can't mow grass and fix a mower problem, repair basic faults in the home, then you are a ward of the state because you have no alternative but depending on government

Exactly, Self reliance or bureaucratic serfdom

[Melas]

If you can't maintain a car, can't mow grass and fix a mower problem, repair basic faults in the home, then you are a ward of the state because you have no alternative but depending on government.

That's nonsense. I don't maintain my car. I pay other people to do that for me. Of course I could mow my own grass, but I have a teenager to do that for me. When he tells me that the mower doesn't work, I put in the back of the aforementioned SUV and take it to get it repaired. Ditto for the home. When something needs fixing, there are people far more qualified than myself ready for hire. I'm in no way a ward of the state. If anything, I'm an economic engine.

[BenKenobi]

Well heavens, that wouldn’t be because their father never taught them any of it?

If you want kids to exhibit these behaviours you have to teach them. I am slowly learning, but no thanks to my dad, who preferred not teaching me anything about cars or mechanics.