I should've clarified that.
Who didn't ask that as a kid?
But at some point you learn as an adult, working, that if nothing else, forcing your mind to think beyond your comfort zone is good in the long run besides the practical aspects. I'm teaching my kid to sew and I love teasing her that's she's using math because she looks at fractions and says the same thing.
So anyway, it's as if some of those kids who asked that are now running things and they're still saying who needs that stuff? They don't value it because it has no value in their life (or so they think). Because in a generation or two who will be building their homes and programming their phones for them?
(Math is as much about teaching logical thinking as it is about the mechanics.
But they're right, if all you want to do is make $15 @ McDonalds, I guess you don't need Algebra II. Or maybe that's why people want the minimum wage raised.)