The part where it was made illegal for children to work. Humans had children integrated into the things adults do, too. I don't even get who pushed for this. It just alienates young adults from life, opening paths for them to turn to drugs and other destructive behaviors.

The industrial revolution probably had something to do with it. No push for kids to stay out of work before that.

>It sort of makes you wonder where we went wrong

when we moved from communal intergenerational lifestyles to the insular nuclear family. David brooks wrote a great piece about it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuc...

Yeah, I'm pretty convinced that you take a brain that is adapted to tribes and you force it into other structures and it stops working so well.

If I could, in a sensible way, engage my 3-year-old in adding features with me to this springboot service, I totally would.