Their will probably was not to pick strawberries in a foreign nation or clean beers spilled surfaces at 11pm or not being able to breastfeed their infant because they need to go slap hamburgers together for $15 an hour.
I assume not all of those people willingly got drunk and high and got caught engaging in crime in their teens and 20s and willingly threw away their economic opportunities.
Yes, that is what taxes are.
Ah. I've left out the obvious option: You don't have kids, and don't plan to?
I bring this up not to be snarky but because this feels like a very real Catch-22.
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> Ah. I've left out the obvious option: You don't have kids, and don't plan to?
Yes, that's their business.
My problem isn't with their personal decision per-se. It's that today's myths ("the glorious and independent startup founder") encourage people to make sacrifices that they may not think about until it's too late. I think most people who chase the startup dream will regret it. I also think that there are other people, not founders on average, who benefit from these myths. So they should be treated with suspicion.
In a libertarian perspective, the young create growth in the market that the ownership old use to fund their retirements, and in a socialist perspective, they create a tax base of income that the government uses to fund the retirements of the old.