Reply #29: No chance. This is America, where you're either perfect or you're a bum. [View All]

[HughBeaumont]

A modern American's life, literally, cannot have ANY landmines if they even hope to retire or prosper. College is no longer affordable or feasible and corporate America is no longer time accommodating if a "Plan B" means a relatively quick career switch. We no longer have plants or factories hiring for a living wage on these shores.

The average high schooler would be wise to not only start saving regularly in his/her teens for retirement/home, but consider going into an ever-dwindling field of "recession-proof" (I put that in quotes because everyone here knows those no longer exist) careers whether they like or hate them.

What's funny is that all of the Republican laissez-failists who were fully supportive of just letting a corrupted economic system "do what it do" (a linear system which requires both infinite amounts of capital and resources to thrive in a world where neither one exists) still adamantly refuse to admit the painfully obvious flaws of unfettered capitalism, all while still blaming the victim when even one bad plan-derailing thing happens to them.