Hi, Kip. So I'm just getting around to reading this now, and I believe your approach is actually brilliant, though it didn't work out the greatest this time around.

I wish I had been using this approach when my kids were younger. I did however learn to use it later in life. I think that peace work is actually the most equitable and most motivating way to approach any employer employee type task or situation.

Had the boy child not been distracted by the VR game, the motivation factor would have enabled him to do the task and to excel at it far better than anything else.

In particular, far better than paying him by the hour or by the whole job.

So, despite the spare results, please don't give up that approach. Peace work is the way to go.😃

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I grew up playing games of acquisition and it was wild how much ground work is needed for it to be fun, like I was expecting him to negotiate a better wage and he just had no concept. It's my friend's kid so I don't want to indoctrinate him too much into ruthless capitalism but I'm hoping some small doses will help him out in the long run 😅

Did you learn those from Deep Space Nine?🤔🧐😆

IMNSHO, "ruthless capitalism" is simply statism relabled to throw us off the trail of the real culprits...

The Austrian Economists are the mists I prefer breathing...😃

Yes of course we loved all the Star Trek shows but I think Deep Space Nine is objectively the best 😅

My uncle was the union leader for Bell Atlantic and didn't have kids but did have money and a passion for teaching us to demand higher wages and how to accumulate wealth so that we could do what we wanted in a world that runs on wealth. Looking back it was a lot of good lessons in a fun way 🤑