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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3784674" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>millennials are apparently very enlightened as to where we are headed. i completely agree, and my bets on the latter. suprised teen vogue is writing on this stuff. im guessing alot of millennials have little money to invest:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-capitalism-is?mbid=social_twitter" target="_blank">Everything You Need to Know About Capitalism</a></p><p></p><p>capitalism <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalism" target="_blank">is defined as</a> an economic system in which a country’s trade, industry, and profits are controlled by private companies, <strong>instead of by the people whose time and labor powers those companies. </strong></p><p></p><p><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/retirement/millennial-retirement-savings/index.html" target="_blank">CNN recently reported</a> that <strong>66% of people between the ages of 21 and 32 have nothing saved for retirement.</strong> However, <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/03/18/some-millennials-arent-saving-for-retirement-because-they-do-not-think-capitalism-will-exist-by-then/" target="_blank">according to <em>Salon</em></a>, the reason many millennials haven’t been investing in mutual funds or building up their own financial nest eggs isn’t because they’re too broke, or that they lack personal responsibility — it’s because they think our current economic system, capitalism, will cease to exist by the time they are in their 60s.</p><p></p><p><strong>The millennials <em>Salon</em> spoke to expect to see a grand societal shift in their lifetime, either toward socialism — <a href="http://www.worldsocialism.org/english/what-socialism" target="_blank">a political and economic system</a> in which the means of production are collectively and equally owned by everyone — or toward a sort of dystopian <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caHnaRq8Qlg" target="_blank">Mad Max</a> nightmare in which resources have dwindled, rich plutocrats own everything, and ordinary people need to band together in small, autonomous communities to survive.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3784674, member: 56035"] millennials are apparently very enlightened as to where we are headed. i completely agree, and my bets on the latter. suprised teen vogue is writing on this stuff. im guessing alot of millennials have little money to invest: [URL="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-capitalism-is?mbid=social_twitter"]Everything You Need to Know About Capitalism[/URL] capitalism [URL='https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalism']is defined as[/URL] an economic system in which a country’s trade, industry, and profits are controlled by private companies, [B]instead of by the people whose time and labor powers those companies. [/B] [URL='http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/retirement/millennial-retirement-savings/index.html']CNN recently reported[/URL] that [B]66% of people between the ages of 21 and 32 have nothing saved for retirement.[/B] However, [URL='https://www.salon.com/2018/03/18/some-millennials-arent-saving-for-retirement-because-they-do-not-think-capitalism-will-exist-by-then/']according to [I]Salon[/I][/URL], the reason many millennials haven’t been investing in mutual funds or building up their own financial nest eggs isn’t because they’re too broke, or that they lack personal responsibility — it’s because they think our current economic system, capitalism, will cease to exist by the time they are in their 60s. [B]The millennials [I]Salon[/I] spoke to expect to see a grand societal shift in their lifetime, either toward socialism — [URL='http://www.worldsocialism.org/english/what-socialism']a political and economic system[/URL] in which the means of production are collectively and equally owned by everyone — or toward a sort of dystopian [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caHnaRq8Qlg']Mad Max[/URL] nightmare in which resources have dwindled, rich plutocrats own everything, and ordinary people need to band together in small, autonomous communities to survive.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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