Quote:Steve Chapman should have just asked a millennial why we are so drawn to socialism. While he got a few things right in his recent column Why millennials are so drawn to socialism, he focuses on minor details and misses the big picture.
Millennials are the first generation in American memory who start off their adult lives worse off than their parents and will likely die that way. We graduate from college burdened with debts that in rare cases exceed $100,000. Capitalist policies have shipped American manufacturing overseas in order to bust labor unions, lower costs and increase profits. So unless you get a college education, there aren't any realistic opportunities for a living wage to support a middle-class lifestyle. Even then, if you choose a major such as education in Oklahoma or Kentucky, you'll still barely break the poverty line. Did I mention you also now carry a student loan debt worth as much as a mortgage that, in all likelihood, not even bankruptcy protection can get you out of?
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