This should not be interpreted as a history about bad parenting - our father meant well. He wanted to give fighting chance to my brother in our brutal society the only way he known how and my brother really did not had any idea what to do with his life and was totally passive.
This can be read as a story about overregulation, but in this context I believe it only exacerbated the real problem.
I think that this all is more a story about our society pressure for everyone to be sucessful and have ever growing social status and material posessions.
It would be nice if somehow there was a place for people like my brother to be himself and not be a failure in game of life because he cannot handle the pressures and really does not want to do more than playing games and doing some simple job to sustain this (and this is whole other story - at this moment he is not able to find any job, because our capitalistic system does not have idea what to do with people like him).
Well, almost all fathers mean well and by that point I mean, you can mean well, and still have poor outcomes (i.e. be bad at parenting).
Mine certainly did, but he still ended up using the money set aside for my college education to buy a Porsche and then sell it at a complete loss years later. He meant well because he thought of it as an investment, but it really wasn't. He believed it though, even though any reasonable person would not classify that as an investment.
As for playing games and not being able to find jobs. There's something to be said for creating a livable future which almost every parent today has failed.
There's a growing body of research that the number of jobs today that would normally have been available during critical time periods were reduced, where older workers, who were more productive because of their experience, ended up taking positions that would normally be held by people developing entry-level skills in careers when they couldn't find the skilled jobs they'd trained for.
In the book, 'The Pinch'; this references a lot of material and is discussed in great detail. Its arguably much more difficult today to get by than it has ever been; and its been driven by changes that were largely outside the current generations control (political power is supposed to transfer every 20 years, but in many places hasn't and is still dominated in majority by the boomer generation).
As for not being able to find a job, that has more to do with the jobs not being available; and potentially other ways monopolistic behavior have created for limiting the job pools to drive wages down.
This behavior is actually a common trend in capitalism when wages fall below certain key thresholds; and I don't mean any specific amount of wages, but the cost of living (in purchasing power) and mobility. It historically has kept to a ratio, but fiat has cause this to deviate like any great ponzi creating this disadvantaged environment today (which was predictable).
You also see these issues in any highly regulated society like in China with the Bailan (摆烂), let it rot movement. Yes its socialist, but the difference between capitalism and socialism when both have high regulation is almost negligible. Socialism relies on exploitative labor force, and elements of a centralized power structure, and lack of property rights; they also have concentrated business sectors (oligopoly) in terms of the means of production.
The main difference between the two is the division of labor, which breaks down under heavy regulation and lack of price discovery/stable store of value.
Ironically, if you have no hope of being able to do any of the major life milestones you're taught at a young age, you get your enjoyment where you can; and limit suffering.
Capitalism knows what they need to do (get out of people's way), but they don't do it because it would involve ceding power and control.
This has happened before, just not on such a global scale; and its fairly predictable what happens next (given a certain level of study in historic subjects).
This can be read as a story about overregulation, but in this context I believe it only exacerbated the real problem.
I think that this all is more a story about our society pressure for everyone to be sucessful and have ever growing social status and material posessions.
It would be nice if somehow there was a place for people like my brother to be himself and not be a failure in game of life because he cannot handle the pressures and really does not want to do more than playing games and doing some simple job to sustain this (and this is whole other story - at this moment he is not able to find any job, because our capitalistic system does not have idea what to do with people like him).