I agree we could be taught more useful tools. Few people understand nutrition as well as they think they do. Or the benefits to exercise.

There's a really bad level of entitlement I notice from almost all generations so I don't think it's just a "young persons" problem. And more often than not (despite what social media shows you) I think the real world corrects that pretty rapidly, when people start getting jobs etc. I don't think it's a nowadays specific thing, I think across all generations, bad parents raise kids badly, those kids then learn the hard way. But in the interim those kids tend to be problematic and lack respect for others.

It's a complicated issue as some of the problem lies in systemic socioeconomic disparity. Why do the rich get richer? Because they learnt finance, why do the poor stay poor? Because they (in my view deliberately) havn't been taught how to look after their money or themselves. (But that's a real simple way for anyone to control a population, keep them stupid and subservient).

I think the curriculum absolutely needs addressing to include basic life skills, such as finance management, basic nutrition, understanding exercise etc. but that (in my view) is counter to the objective of population control.