From Costco, a children’s toolkit with a picture of exactly one child:
A closer look at the future member of America’s tool-using working class:
Stanley gives us a photo of America’s future working class
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@PhilG Did you buy one.
Anon: As a general rule I will buy anything that Costco sells. For this item in particular, however, I don’t think it would work for our kids, the youngest of whom is currently in 3rd grade.
It is labeled ages 8+. Seems perfect for a family where the youngest is in third grade.
Roger: good point. I guess if we had a big basement (instead of no basement) it might make sense for each child to have a personal workbench and tool set. But as it is they can just use the regular adult tools that are in the case on those rare occasions when they want to make themselves useful.
Actual future working class? https://youtu.be/F_7IPm7f1vI
Your photo op class worker may just be drinking her matcha from (that other) Stanley (tumbler) while Atlas handles the rough stuff?
Suspect when the lion kingdom can no longer afford an apartment & has to buy a house, the roof will be getting replaced by the same dudes who did that work 200 years ago.
All roofers in FL are Hispanic immigrants. Roofing company owners and estimators are regular White native-born deplorable Americans.
That takes me back to my childhood, around 1940 and the frustration garnered by the ?Woolworth’s toy toolkit an uncle gave me1 None of the tools worked; the hammer would not/could not drive a nail; the saw would not/could not cut wood! etc. Yet my father, a skilled cabinet-maker, allowed this rubbish to be given and was surprised when, years later, I declined to join his workshop and instead became an academic.