Just what every kid needs - more time indoors in front of a screen being feed this notion that anything they want out of life is just a mouse click away.
When I was a kid I had a paper route and did services in my neighborhood: car washing, lawn care, dog walking, house sitting, & selling seeds & greeting cards door-to-door. You have to crawl before you run.
i get your point, and it's true that the kids nowadays spend a lot of time with their gadgets, but philosophically speaking, someone could also say that:
(1) One of the duties as parents would be to teach kids about the realities of society, how capital works, and the ways to help them avoid unnecessary sweat and toil -- it's like that interview with Snapchat CEO when he first became a billionaire, I think he said something along the lines of him feeling grateful that he learned how to work '
the system' early on.
His parents are both very successful lawyers, so that may have something to do with it.
Even beyond the good start they probably helped him out with, it's the nuances of finding ways to succeed in 'the system'... and 'the system' in today's world generates different reward/payouts for different activities.
(2) Actually, it's not fundamentally wrong to get what you want by 'clicking a mouse' if (part of) what you want is money (like everyone in the world who needs to eat and pay with cash or credit), and the system allows for it -- like how it's not wrong for:
- celebrities to make millions from endorsements
- venture capitalists to make billions from signing pieces of paper with the right startup
- guys who made millions/billions mining cryptocurrencies
Why is it ethically or morally wrong?
(3) I don't think trading is just 'clicking a mouse,' makes it 1 dimensional and like saying:
- pro athletes just 'use their muscles'
- singers just 'pump their vocal cords'
- software engineers just 'type a bunch of stuff on the keyboard'
- pilots just 'run their hands across a panel of buttons'
as participants in an industrialized society, we must become specialized in what we do, and part of that specialization means increased layers of abstraction of the activity, which masks its end value to society.
in this case, if no one in the next generation ever traded or had any participation in the financial markets, there would be a lack of liquidity, public would find it hard to make use of capital, companies would never IPO, economy reverts back to pre-stock exchange era.
(4) sure, sometimes to achieve a goal requires toil, but if there are multiple ways of achieving the goal, why is it wrong to select the least draining way?
it's like uber and the rest of the gig economy, there have been reports that the drivers make <$10/hour, so if toil itself is the be all end all, why all the outrage about how hard they work for so little pay.
