• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    The red line concerns me, the blue line depresses me, but the green line? Well, ya, your average high schooler isn’t terribly useful. That’s kind of the point of being a teenager. Be useless and enjoy life for a bit.

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      The issue here is that kids are being expected to grow up younger and younger. Get a 40 hour a week job at 14 during the summer, and work after school the rest of the year. If you’re not working, you should be doing something that’ll look good on a college resume, like school sports or volunteer work. There’s no room for teenagers to just be teenagers in capitalism anymore.