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Re:Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for governm... by 15155 on Saturday December 07, 2024 @11:31AM (#42350807)
I grew up in the US with parents that had a suburban kingdom, large back yard, swimming pool, garage for three SUVs, and workshop: I walked to, waited for, and rode the bus to kindergarten.

"This is what they get" is false causation, these things have been present for decades. Helicopter parenting, liability for walking around alone, special snowflake treatment are all newly-introduced ideas.

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Re:Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for governm... by WarOnPrivacy on Sunday December 08, 2024 @02:34PM (#42359713)
The shift from roaming to restriction took place over generations and occurred unevenly.

A few generations ago, the trend was that US kids had a broad range of appealing places to roam and were generally free to do so.

Presently the US trend is that kids have few if any appealing places to go. And should they roam anyway, they and their parents risk legal (and increasingly permanent) consequences.

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Re:Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for governm... by shiroiushi on Sunday December 08, 2024 @11:13PM (#42363025)
You must be quite young if you had SUVs when you were growing up. They didn't become popular until the late 1990s. They basically didn't exist at all in the 1980s or before; people had station wagons back then.
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Re:Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for governm... by WarOnPrivacy on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @07:29PM (#42383322)
We did have Suburbans, Broncos and a Ram thing that was closed in. Not a ton of them but they were out there.
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