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And who's fault is that? Who failed them? C'mon, man. 🙄
I was raised by a ghetto rat and a junkie and I still managed to figure out "if I don't spend my penny today I can buy something better tomorrow."
You are responsible for you, even if the deck is stacked against you horribly, you have to make the best of it.
Just because your dad didn't teach you how to fix a car doesn't mean you have to pay 1000$+ to let someone else do it your entire life.
Populations of people can only behave deterministically. Meaning that it's a simple matter of incentives and disincentives. An individual can decide to do more with less, not a population.
Every population is made of individuals however. We all got choices to make, and if most people chose to be better, the population would end up doing so.
Most people are not going to spontaneously choose to be better. That's impossible. It's always the path of least resistance. It's up to the culture to pressure the population in a good direction.
You give humanity too much credit. The NPC meme a few years back was shut down hard because it was too accurate.
Broadly speaking yes, they're made up of individuals.
Non-functional individuals. Average Iqs and all that, most individuals are farrrrrrrr too stupid to preserve their own resources for the winter without being forced.
We used to have multiple mechanisms for doing that, and for punishing you early for not behaving, but those got condemned for being unfair "you don't know their history!" "Everyone deserves a second chance!" "Oh so you never made any mistakes?"
The legal mechanisms got stripped away by fiat, usury, and fractional reserve banking.
The cultural ones got stomped by being called racist, sexist, etc. Meanwhile cultural identity is under constant attack, youre evil for success, evil for being white, evil for being a man, evil for thinking fatties and fags are gross.
Evil for behaving like every human being for 98% of human history.
It's not really any surprise how that turns out
Funny that I found myself in to this category. Everyone had cheat cods because their dads would teach them stuff but I started doing stuff on my own as an adult, I was very bad at it but eventually got decent enough and I'm proud of what I accomplish even if it is not exactly best quality. But I still feel that I'm lagging behind other dudes.
Saved a ton of money on car maintenance, plumbing, electrical, woodwork.
I feel that. My dad knew how to do most of that stuff like the back of his hand, but was usually too fucked up to really teach you anything.
My adulthood has been a long line of learning basic shit from scratch just so my wife and kids can have something resembling a put together home and some savings for when shit goes wrong.
My dad would tell me to fix things around the house or at the family business because he's too cheap to hire a professional. It was on me to look up how to fix whatever shit broke down that day. I got really good at changing out fill valves in toilets.
I guess in a way the lessons learned still helps me out as an adult, even if he contributed nothing to the learning process.
You can blame others for not teaching you. You can only blame yourself for remaining uneducated.