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You're actually making a good point that I don't wholesale disagree with.
But the last paragraph really set me off I guess.
Personally I believe it's important to have a somewhat granular understanding of the things we use every day, otherwise we risk becoming a slave to them.
None of us can go through life believing that it's okay to have no skills and no ability to do anything because there's an easier solution there for us
Because something is going to happen at some point that will take that easy solution away and then you're fucked. What happens when all you have is a paper map, but all you've done is rely on these cool glowing boxes to tell you which direction to walk? You're out in the bush with a wet phone and you sit down to cry... Because you've made yourself a slave and you have no idea what to do now.
I'm 50 now, and I don't want to talk like an old man, but I can see that young people have no ability to manage their lives or do anything. There's always a free ad supported app to do it, and then when the internet goes down they are doomed.
If you drive a car, you need to know how to change a tire and put gas in it. If you have a fridge to preserve food, yeah, you probably should understand how and why it preserves food and what to do if power goes down for a day. You should probably further understand how to preserve and ferment things because at many points in your life you're going to get a lot of ingredients that are going to go to waste and you can eat them if you know what you're doing.
Overall I cannot go for your advocacy of self-imposed helplessness. Every time you take an easy answer, you actually screw yourself. Most of the time it's better to take the long road and do the hard work and figure out how to be a capable human being. Once you know how to do it without the easy solution, then you can use the easy solution. In a short metaphor, use the calculator once you know math.
You're not wrong, but also you aren't right. The basics that you need should be taught to you by your parents and at school before you move out. AI isn't interfering with either of those at this point.
You couldn't manage your life in the event of every possible problem either, the question then becomes which things should you know how to do yourself, and which things can be delegated.
I don't know how to repair a car beyond changing a tire or the oil, but even that isn't really necessary anymore since many cars don't even come with a spare at this point and knowing how to change the oil is now irrelevant to me, since I'm using an EV.
Knowing how to ferment for preservation may come in handy for saving a couple of dollars, but it's hardly a life saving skill anymore. Even in the event of a massive catastrophe, it's unlikely that fermentation would come in handy before aid arrived or you were able to leave the area.
Your response is actually baffling to me.
I'm not sure why you think parents are there to serve you every piece of knowledge.
You're an autonomous human being and you'd better learn how to learn on your own if you want to have a happy, functional life.
As you get older you're going to realize that nobody is going to spoon-serve you free knowledge ... That's something that is hard fought, absolutely not a gift from parents or anything else. You have to do the work.
The fact that you just cherry-pick and poo poo my comment is a little bit sad. I see you self-imposing helplessness upon yourself, it's a really poor attitude. I think you're actually just lazy.
You think it's a kids job to learn how to become an adult themselves? What the fuck
I'm 40, with my own kids. I've been teaching them everything I think they should know how to do to be an adult when they move out. How to cook and clean, make a budget, fill out forms, how to show up on time, be part of a team, etc. The school is taking care of most of the academics, but I add some extra things that the school fails to cover as extensively as I'd like such as how to properly use Microsoft Excel.
What they do to grow once they're out of the house isn't my problem, I'm just setting the foundation and that absolutely is the job of parents and teachers.
Great answer, sir. Thank you