They need people to work asap though. If people didn’t have their first job until 18 or 19, they’d realize how much better it is to not have a job. Imagine living the first 25 years of your life without a job but being taken care of and then suddenly having to work a min wage job. Nobody would do it. They’d do everything they could to not do it. So you get them young and convince them that work is a normal part of life that makes you a better person. It teaches you responsibility and lets you be independent. Then by the time they have some perspective on life it’s too late, they’re used to it. They’re more willing to view it as a normal part of life that must be tolerated.

The other component of this is making sure families are so desperate that their kids have to work from a young age.