Somewhat tangential, but related: does anyone else question age stratification, generally? In the days of the single room school, older kids would mix with and tutor the younger ones. Or perhaps, a teenager would apprentice in a trade with older adults. Households would span generations.
Now, we're segregated by age classification. You grow up only amongst kids your age. Adults work only with adults, and the grandparents are away in a home. Events where generations or age groups mix seem rare. I'm not enough of a sociologist to know whether there's anything inherently wrong with this, but it gives me pause.
Adults in the work force range from late teens/early twenties to mid/late sixties. A lot of times I go to lunch with people from work and they are talking about things from their high school years that occurred before I was born. So I think there's a decent mix there.
Now, we're segregated by age classification. You grow up only amongst kids your age. Adults work only with adults, and the grandparents are away in a home. Events where generations or age groups mix seem rare. I'm not enough of a sociologist to know whether there's anything inherently wrong with this, but it gives me pause.