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your recent post says that parents are only willing to pay because it improves SOMETHING about their kids. clearly that's true, but that SOMETHING doesn't have to be future money-making ability. there are many worthwhile somethings, as soozievt and others have eloquently said, and you see only one of them.
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The issue is not what
I see, it's what mootman, or more importantly, what other parents see.
But, to your point, let me put it to you this way. When I was a kid, I used to love playing video games. I mean LOVED it. And I used to tell them that playing these games improves my hand-eye coordination, my reflexes, ability to think quickly, and so forth. And it's true - I did improve those skills greatly. You think my parents cared about that? Heck no! They did everything they could to restrict my game-playing and instead encourage me to study.
What I am saying is that those skills that parents encourage can't just be
any skill, but have to be something that parents think are actually
useful.