Schools: don’t teach those skills anymore

Stuff: is made to not be repairable

Tools & Materials: are priced as a luxury

Working Hours: have expanded to take up a lot of people’s whole day and weekends

Wages: have stagnated so that everyone has to work full time

“News” media: Your dad is better at DIY than you, ya dick!

lets not forget:

Your parents: have never actually taught you any of those things either

I got so angry once because my grandmother threw shade at my sister-in-law for spending so much on a wedding dress. Bc, you see, apparently HER grandmother made her dress for the cost of the materials.

And I was like. You realize that’s not a snub towards my sister in law, right? You realized you just insulted yourself. I’m sure my sister in law would have loved it if a grandmother had the skill and generosity to make a beautiful wedding dress for the cost of the materials. But you don’t seem to have those skills and considering YOU are the grandmother…

Just fun to notice that, apparently, dads did a shit job of teaching their millennial sons how to fix a house. Which I’m sure their fathers would be grumpy to hear. But it’s the millennials fault they don’t know. It’s my sister in laws fault for paying so much.

There has been some generational shifts but they sure as hell didn’t start with the millennials.

The “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” crowd assumed that also applied to all the skills they themselves were taught by others

This now extends to children not learning basic typing skills and computer knowledge and web safety from parents who just assumed schools would teach them or they’d “figure it out” on their own.