Children Don’t Grow Up to Be Like Your Parents
Our bootstrap culture forgot to make the bootstraps affordable. Fortunately, my generation will soon be passing the reins on to a younger generation. So as a 72-year-old woman, if I were to give anybody under the age of 40 advice, it would be this: Yeah, they saw to that before you had a chance to benefit from the previous generation’s windfall. Pensions, affordable housing, affordable education, unions, jobs that one could retire from, a living wage, marriages that lasted, even your inheritance is gone. They’ll act like you’re the problem but that’s because they’ve bought into the pull yourself up by your bootstraps philosophy even though they rely on social security.
Strive to live smaller, without debt, so that what little money you can squeeze out of the broken system you’ve inherited is actually yours. The debt your parents are carrying is killing our economy along with your chances of getting what they wanted. Become as self sufficient as possible. Raise some of your own food. Own hard assets like your house and land. Create jobs for yourself that allows you to be self employed. Think environmentally friendly instead of adopting the burn it to the ground mentality of your parents. They were about waste. You don’t have to be.
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