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Why do we encourage a group to vote who remind us daily about their inability to survey their options and make good decisions?

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I agree. Why do we let the Boomers vote as they continue to drive us ever closer towards the deleterious effects of severe climate change?

I am so tired of the "Millennials are lazy and make bad decisions" narrative. You can't make blanket statements about an entire generation. Please stop.

Yea that's a crazy sentiment considering who encourages these young people to go to college (their parents, primarily) and without considering the absolutely unbelieavable increases in college tuition costs with no discernible benefit to the attendees (while Professors become adjunct and paid less).

To be fair, most people make the decision about where they go to school (and along with that, how much it costs) when they are barely adults and don't have a good grasp on finance. At least part of the blame falls on parents, and teachers who point them to expensive schools, and our culture which has praised expensive schools as a positive thing for a long time. I'm hoping the next generation will get better guidance.

The only part I disagree with is that it is ALL the parents’ fault.

My point wasn’t necessarily that millennials are uniquely stupid, rather that the voting age should be at least 25.

It’s a mixed bag. On one hand young people put Corbyn in power, on the other they voted overwhelmingly against the Brexit old Boomers loved and voted for. I don’t think reducing the voting population is a good idea, especially to something absurd like 25, which is almost a decade after you can enlist to die abroad, drive a car, and drink alcohol.

One must keep in mind that by definition half the population have an IQ less than 100. That is plenty for unscrupulous lendors to take advantage of.

Indeed the restoration of bankruptcy would solve this problem, albeit at great cost to former lendors.

Were you prepared to make the biggest financial decision of your life at 18?

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