>It might be better for the country if more of these individuals started businesses... It's subtle but I think this is an important sentence in the article. Th

>It might be better for the country if more of these individuals started businesses... It's subtle but I think this is an important sentence in the article. The US has gone further and further down a path that signals to every young person that they are on their own. The safety nets are being eroded, and politicians are signaling that they want to erode them more. The young adults are paying into systems like Social Security that they expect to never benefit from, while the older generations keep voting to ensure that they get the benefit and the younger generations can deal with the fallout. Why would any intelligent young person whose weighing the pros and cons, take a risk that might be a net benefit for the country, when the country wont help them in return?