Article on ZeroHedge today: 1 In 4 Millennials Rely On Their Parents To Pay Some Bills – Even While Working Full Time.
It’s easy for the older generations to blame Millennials for being lazy, overly idealistic, out of touch, or constantly triggered, but they’ve been dealt a really sh*tty upbringing of an entire youth wasted on Government Education and Work Avoidance which prepare them to do nothing but move on to the next 4+ years of bankrupting University – which also fails to prepare them to think critically, provide a valuable service to society or an employer, or to feed and manage themselves. (At this point we could discuss the value of working as a teen, alternative schooling options, trade schools, the rare college degree that delivers a positive cost/benefit analysis, other routes to acquiring marketable skills and experience, alternative methods of “signaling” to employers and the public one’s competencies and reliability other than a piece of paper from an “accredited” school, the opportunity costs of where and how else that time and money could have been spent,…)
Government, Society, Culture, and Zombie Parents have created a perpetual, protected adolescence for this generation(s?) of many hundreds of thousands of young persons, doing them no favors. At the end of that prolonged adolescence (if it ends) lies debt, disappointment, poverty, broken dreams. These youth were lied to in potentially every conceivable way: economically, psychologically, historically, politically, religiously. The moment they become conscious of the deceptions, when they have that awakening of disenchantment and anger, is when adulthood begins. How much better to wake them up in their early teens, so they can prepare, work, adapt, think, survive – rather than set them up for decades of debt and discouragement that they may never be able to overcome? The moral duty seems clear to me.
An informative podcast on this topic can be found at TomWoods.com (as well as many other good ones on related issues). Harvard-trained psychologist, Robert Epstein, guests and explains how “… adolescence is an artificial construct of recent vintage, unknown in earlier times or indeed in many parts of the world today. The creation of this category, and the assumptions that inform it (by state and society alike) have harmed young people, he argues, and are responsible for the anxiety and angst we associate with the teenage years.”
It would be difficult to find a topic of greater importance than the treatment of current adolescence. For their own health, for their financial well-being, for the influence and direction that they will give to their own families and to Society in the coming decades, it is not hyperbole to say that our future depends upon the youth of today. Unfortunately, their problems are primarily the fault of their predecessors – parents, teachers, politicians, clergy,… – those whose duty it was to guide them well. Instead, these Life Guides have abdicated their duties, at best, and at worst, they have purposefully manipulated and parasitized humanity’s youth for their own motives of profit and power (e.g. mammoth tuition schemes, tax justification, war fodder, votes, marketing for consumption and profits, perpetuating myths and failed ideas,…). The “Adults” have directed those for whom they have stewardship down faulty, expensive and deceptive paths. Stop setting them up for failure. And stop blaming them for that failure,… which is really your own.