>it is our western society and leaders that made this choice for us because our olds own all the power This is true right up until one is old enough to vote. O

>it is our western society and leaders that made this choice for us because our olds own all the power This is true right up until one is old enough to vote. One of the most frustrating realizations as I've gotten older (I graduated during the great recession too) is that younger people don't vote while older people do. Most of what you listed could be fixed or at least vastly improved if younger demographics actually bothered to address issues that impact them, because older people certainly do. - Expensive housing could be addressed by younger voters pressing their local council to permit more units. Instead we have wealthy and older people pressing for the opposite. - Starter jobs/salary etc. could be helped if younger people pressed their politicians to update minimum wage/paid leave etc. Yet we don't. - Healthcare etc. could be universal, instead it's only universal for people of a certain age (read: the demographic that votes). I get that not all issues are solvable by young people, and pinning all their issues on them isn't productive, but there's so much that could be improved if they simply looked after themselves the way older people do.