The longer that a problem exists, the less that a phrase like "that's just the way things are" seems to satisfy the people most affected by it.
And while we're all seeing what it looks like when people in the workforce reach the limit of what they're willing to put up with, something similar is also going on for a lot of families.
In certain households, word is starting to spread about a concept known as weaponized incompetence where partners are realizing that their spouses are intentionally doing housework poorly as a means to do it as little as possible.
Although we're told that is a major problem for the family we're about to hear about, it seems that one dad would have been able to get away with it if he didn't have such an ego.