He then goes on to suggest a (not completely unreasonable) solution that could benefit not only himself, but others. It may not (and likely will not) be something that gets implemented, but asking for it politely seems like a good idea to me.
Overall, I'd say it a much better attempt at good parenting then just ignoring the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5maqSpXzJo8&t=1m30s
"This whole country, our thing is the children. We have to do it all for the children. And, meanwhile, nobody gives a shit about how they raise their kids.
People put minimal effort into it. They're like consumers of their kids. They want to call Customer service..."
The hilarity is amplified for me, obviously, because I have a deep connection to the stories he's telling, but the comfort is that he's telling my story in the same way I would and people aren't running him out of the village with fire. In fact they're all laughing too.
Phew, I was (kind of) worried calling babies self absorbed Hitlers meant I was broken- instead I'm just a bad person and I'm okay with that.
I shouldn't have to, but PS, my kids are the best thing in my world and if I was worried they weren't I wouldn't be calling them little atrocity machines. So if you take offense, I'm not sorry.
I don't think that's true. Parenting is much harder than coding and you don't get to check out because you're "burned out".