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I don't think the trope of young people being lazy is necessarily true. I think the problem is a lot of younger people are making poor decisions after high school. People who make good decisions are doing well.

Most people that are 18 years old aren't capable of making these decisions and they still need their parents guidance. I don't think that's rediculous, and the parents should still be involved in decision making at that age. 30 years ago 18 year olds may have been able to make decisions on their future, but the world wasn't as mobile as it is now. As someone was saying earlier in the thread in the 70s you got a job and you worked there 30 years until retirement. That's not really how it works anymore, but although the world has changed drastically we want kids to still be able to make the decisions that their parents and grandparents made.

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Posted by Pecker

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Posted on 8/21/17 at 5:29 pm to Mingo Was His NameO

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Most people that are 18 years old aren't capable of making these decisions and they still need their parents guidance.

As someone was saying earlier in the thread in the 70s you got a job and you worked there 30 years until retirement. That's not really how it works anymore, but although the world has changed drastically we want kids to still be able to make the decisions that their parents and grandparents made.

What? Since when is 18 years old too young to decide what your career focus should be?

If you treat 18 year olds like children that can't make decisions for their own lives, you're going to end up with 25 year olds who never learned how to make good decisions vs bad decisions.

At 16 years old Alexander the Great was put in charge of Macedonia while his father was away waging war against Byzantium.

...But 18 year olds are too young to decide if they want to pursue a degree that will allow them to pay their own bills.

This post was edited on 8/21/17 at 5:33 pm

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