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Those are the cards you have been dealt. Now you can either complain about it or you can take action and get yourself ahead. That's part of being an adult. Part of being an adolescent is pointless raging against the machine.

Yes the unfunded social security and medicare is a disaster, but it's not going away, so all people in their 20's now will have to start working out ways around this particular problem.

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That is a false choice. You can complain while at the same time taking action.

Correctly pointed out. I should further this and say 'you can either invest your energy in complaining or invest it in getting ahead'.

My take on it is that spending time on negative emotions like this gives yourself an excuse to fail.

True, but I think maybe rphlx didn't so much mean to rant himself as explain the questions the article raised. As a 20-something who agrees with him, it is annoying to see these articles which paint my generation in this negative light by members of the older generation who have dealt us a pretty crappy hand.

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