I really appreciate the way you flipped the conversation from “kids these days” to “what are we actually preparing them for?”. It made me think about how much of adulthood is a skill you learn, not an age you reach. We complain that young people don’t take responsibility, yet we’ve built a world that gives them every reason not to practice it. Maybe the real issue isn’t that people are softer, it’s that the environment keeps removing every sharp edge they could grow against.
At what point do they take responsibility for their own skill gaps?