#odd too think about my maternal grandparents both just having gone 6 years in school

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It is like. In 1930s sweden. Other children who was 12 and travelled by themselves to places using public traffic

Every. Single. Working. Class. Kid

Also actually lol. (Almost) Every single swedish 12 year old today

But for why i said that Jan Myrdal sounds spoilt. Your average swedish working class kid in the swedish 1930s

Quit school when they were 13. And then started to work. Like not to be all "back in the day" but my born in the 1930s maternal grandpa worked in a factory when he was 13. And! It is not even a story of some sort extreme poverty that he did so!

He was a normal working class kid, who had quickly found a job at the printing press when he was done with his mandatory 6 years of folkskola. He, and all his classmates who parents could not afford/or did not have good enough grades for further studies after folkskola

Well they... erm graduated for lack of better term, at 13/14 years old. Soooo

Meanwhile Jan Myrdal be like:

"The worst day of my childhood was when i needed to use the bus in new york that one time. Awful!"

Like lol...