Weird Context: it's getting clear to me everyday how the American mind cannot think without involving Capitalism in their ideas.
I hear that even American parents are asking their teenage children for rent. Which is kind of weird to me considering how most cultures that I know of encourage kindness and social support. I might be biased here as I am not American and don't have a deep experience with Americans beyond online interactions and news and articles about them.
Prefix: American
Have worked with teams remotely over the world. When comparing the working styles of the different teams the best description I could give is “we’re the result of bloodthirsty capitalism”.
I would also say that the rent thing isn’t really trying to extort money from your child. It’s more about teaching them about finances and budgeting.
"Shut up and take my money" is outdated
Now it is: "Shut up and let me take a loan right away"
Actually, this was a thing in the states for a bit by way of Oxygen Bars. Haven’t seen one in a couple years though.
The rent thing isn’t super common (but it has been around for forever here). My mom had to start paying rent at 16, and in her wonderful mercy she waited till the younger siblings were in their 20s to do the same. Nobody else I knew really had rent as a thought prior to graduating college, and my dad to the best of my knowledge never paid his parents rent.
I can’t really argue the overall point though. We are set up to see everything as a binary of either “I can screw them over because I have x item/power” or “they can (and should) screw me over because they have x.” It’s painful to watch the cruelty of the supposed “Christian” country here is it implodes around us.
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