You have different priors about how society and people work than I do, very different.
Go ahead and try to come up with reasons parent and I are rational, instead of assuming the worst and belittling others' thought processes. Maybe you'll learn something.
Writing snarky remarks is uncalled for and not pleasant to read on this forum.
That's what I call out and encourage them and others to slow down and consider peoples' humanity.
There are many poverties, many dimensions of wealth.
Happy educated young are a public good and the wealth of nations.
A rising tide raises all ships.
Female education is the driving factor in population stabilisation.
Inherited inequality is implicitly unjust.