Comment by crate_barre

But do they really care? Some of us work in processes and workflows that would alarm others. Imagine you say ‘I care about my son’s education’, yet everyday you watch this child have to sharpen their pencil with a razor, and walk blocks to a Starbucks to get free internet for research. You can solve it or look into, but you don’t. You could even say ‘I get how hard this is for you’, but instead you call the person lazy. We grow fatigued.

That’s many of our shitty codebases and Agile workflows that besiege one’s cognitive capacity. Couple that with a constant ‘what have you done for me lately’ expectation, and you have a recipe for apathy.

Subconsciously, the kid will internalize that and it’ll show. Your failure as this analogous business father is that at the every end, you blame the kid for not doing enough.