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Re:Tying Allowance to Chores Could Kill Kids’ Motivation to ... by jlg23 on Saturday December 29, 2018 @03:07PM (#18785428)
> Maybe I’m being naive or self-centered, but why should kids have to do chores?

To learn the value of honest, dirty work. It is not about skill or intelligence, it is about sacrificing the one finite resource you cannot buy, for the sake of your community: time.

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Re:Tying Allowance to Chores Could Kill Kids’ Motivation to ... by mruts on Sunday December 30, 2018 @01:23PM (#18790530)
I don’t want to know the value of dirty work. If I had to milk the cows and do a bunch of work everyday that would directly cut into the time in which I was actually doing something valuable: programming.

Time is scarce and you need to be laser focused on how you spend it. Doing chores is a terrible time investment. You’re wasting your most valuable years.

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