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by diegomcfly 4439 days ago
If you are an "emerging adult" at age 30, then there is a problem. Further, the author of this article claiming that these so called "emerging adults" are not lazy or self-entitled is ridiculous. It is clearly a case of "first world problems". The mere fact that these "emerging adults" have the luxury of living "on the dole" (whether parental or governmental) while they "figure out what they want to do with their lives" into their late 20s and early 30s is a clear case of self-entitlement.

If you don't have a place to live, food to eat, and shelter ... you "emerge" as an adult pretty quickly and figure out what you "want to do with your life" by DOING WORK you don't want to do to get said food, and shelter (i.e., to survive).

What is the saying? An absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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> If you are an "emerging adult" at age 30, then there is a problem. Further, the author of this article claiming that these so called "emerging adults" are not lazy or self-entitled is ridiculous. It is clearly a case of "first world problems". The mere fact that these "emerging adults" have the luxury of living "on the dole" (whether parental or governmental) while they "figure out what they want to do with their lives" into their late 20s and early 30s is a clear case of self-entitlement.

Did you even read the article? First of all, you dismiss this people as leeches outright. Second, you claim that these people are inherently selfish and lazy with no evidence. Finally, you view receiving assistance as self-entitled at a time when a huge portion of people of all ages use some kind of assistance, governmental or otherwise, to survive. You are essentially the dismissive person that the author of this article was writing about.

> If you don't have a place to live, food to eat, and shelter ... you "emerge" as an adult pretty quickly and figure out what you "want to do with your life" by DOING WORK you don't want to do to get said food, and shelter (i.e., to survive).

According to the article, people in the 18-29 age range working an average of 10 different jobs over that period in their lives. These people do find work that helps them to get shelter and eat. Certainly some of those people rely on additional sources, like family, for some income. However, the point is that people do pursue this work even while wanting something better.

Most survival work like that doesn't pay that well, so you would not be able to get shelter, food etc anyway.

A large majority of professional jobs in business, programming, accountancy, consultancy are filled with people who want to be there.

I am in a professional job, and I doubt I could afford a decent place to live without parental help other than a crappy flat in a dodgy area.

How people afford to live by themselves, on non-professional jobs I don't know.

>I am in a professional job, and I doubt I could afford a decent place to live without parental help other than a crappy flat in a dodgy area.

Then live in a the "crappy flat in a dodgy area".

>How people afford to live by themselves, on non-professional jobs I don't know.

Then don't live by yourself. I had 2 and 3 roommates over various times as a young person getting started. We split the rent in crappy small apartments.

We're moving from investing ~20 years into children into investing ~30 years into children.

Makes perfect sense given how the world had been changing...

"...But follow your dreams!"