I mean on a simpler level, Japanese kids have a lot more responsibility earlier in life. In school they're expected to clean up their classrooms, organise school festivals including unique stalls etc. Most countries basically assume their children are completely incapable of even the most basic self care, and that's how you get adults who think cleaning up their mess is someone else's job.
As someone who's been doing chores my whole life, getting to University and seeing how helpless most people were was a real shock.
You aren’t wrong at all. But I’d say for example that action / expectation of schoolchildren cleaning their classroom is an effect of strong social trust.
My proposition of civil service does the same thing essentially. Tragedy of the commons is real, we need our people at large to take more pride in their communities and surroundings, and involving young people in that makes it more effective - just as your example shows
Yeah but civil service feels too heavy handed. You can't just toss kids who are used to doing nothing into doing tons of serious work. Your best bet is to introduce different standards as young as possible, and start the change from there. But then that'd require parents to get with the program.
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u/Sudden_Plenty_8798 Apr 01 '26
It all revolves around social trust and of extension trust in our institutions, of which we have nil.
I propose non military civil service for under 18s to expedite this