The tablet doesn't work so you let them watch youtube on the PC They find some games on the PC They get bored of the games of the PC so they pirate some cool games They get sophisticated in removing DRM so they install linux They become programmers or influencers.
It's the pipeline that we know of, but there's probably a lot of pipelines into influencers, gamblers, onlyfans models, brainrot consumers, etc...
I would say I basically received no guidance my entire childhood on anything important. Not because my parents were delinquents but they simply had nothing to offer.
If was in middle school, there is no way my parents would be able to police the use of chatGPT. They wouldn't think it is good or bad, they would just not understand what is going on.
I have thought about that many times. It is unimaginable to have received good advice growing up and not have to figure out everything for myself, fixing all these mistakes. What an advantage.
> does all their school work without any oversight at all
I would definitely expect this to be the norm for 11 year olds, not some case of parental neglect as portrayed here.