Must be a Florida thing, here in the Midwest we still have a lot of guys that are hands on, and very pro building, adjusting, etc. but then we are in boring land, where folks have had to make their own entertainment for years, ha. Either way, understanding where you are coming from, but honestly we don't see much of that in Nebraska, though like everywhere else there are getting to be more and more activities and things to occupy folks minds and time. My grandson is 6 and all he wants to discuss is Monster trucks, racing and dinosaurs, so I have a good feeling he will do just fine.
No argument it is getting harder to get folks to work, but honestly that really started over 20 years ago. I do think, like you, that we have a little bit of ourselves to blame for that. Funny, Nebraska gets a lot of jokes done about it, but we are consistently one of the top 2-3 States with the lowest unemployment. We had been Number 1 and all of a sudden it is news that new are now only #2. I always loved that when I was selling as it seemed folks cherished their cars, it was a payment they never missed, so we had little trouble getting customers financed compared to some areas of the US.