Dear 22 Year Old: Concerning your economic Future
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Dear 22 Year Old: Concerning your economic Future
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Re: Dear 22 Year Old: Concerning your economic Future
#2Very well-written. I wish I shared the pastor's optimism!
Re: Dear 22 Year Old: Concerning your economic Future
#3As an 18 year old reading this sort of writing makes me want to leave the country. Except that I'd be taxed for ten years after expatriating, and there isn't any country that I know of as being similarly entrepreneurial. If anyone has suggestions, though, I would love to hear them.
Re: Dear 22 Year Old: Concerning your economic Future
#4Being a 22 year old myself, I'm grateful that nothing in here is surprising to me and that my parents made me start a savings account when I was young (like 10 or something). To be honest, I don't think I've met anyone from my generation who expects to see money from social security when they retire.
Re: Dear 22 Year Old: Concerning your economic Future
#5Being a 22 year old myself, I'm grateful that nothing in here is surprising to me and that my parents made me start a savings account when I was young (like 10 or something). To be honest, I don't think I've met anyone from my generation who expects to see money from social security when they retire.
A government mandated Ponzi scheme. Brilliant. :(
Re: Dear 22 Year Old: Concerning your economic Future
#6As an 18 year old reading this sort of writing makes me want to leave the country. Except that I'd be taxed for ten years after expatriating, and there isn't any country that I know of as being similarly entrepreneurial. If anyone has suggestions, though, I would love to hear them.
You can't control everything. Stop worrying about things you can't change and start enjoying life.
Re: Dear 22 Year Old: Concerning your economic Future
#7I thought that this applied to those 40 and under.
Re: Dear 22 Year Old: Concerning your economic Future
#8As an 18 year old reading this sort of writing makes me want to leave the country. Except that I'd be taxed for ten years after expatriating, and there isn't any country that I know of as being similarly entrepreneurial. If anyone has suggestions, though, I would love to hear them.
You can't control everything. Stop worrying about things you can't change and start enjoying life.
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Re: Dear 22 Year Old: Concerning your economic Future
#9There seemed to be a disconnect here. Just because one is a Baby Boomer (i.e., has life experience) that doesn't give one the magic ability to predict the economic future of, really, the entire world. This article takes the tone of a wizened elder bestowing his wealth of knowledge on the younger generation but it's really just another futurist taking potshots on what's to come for the United States.
At this point there are so many people talking of what's 'inevitable' that I'm disinclined to trust anyone who has a prediction range longer than a week.
Re: Dear 22 Year Old: Concerning your economic Future
#10As an 18 year old reading this sort of writing makes me want to leave the country. Except that I'd be taxed for ten years after expatriating, and there isn't any country that I know of as being similarly entrepreneurial. If anyone has suggestions, though, I would love to hear them.
Sadly, other countries are generally worse than the US.
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