Young people believe inequality is a problem
whereas Republicans tend to dismiss it.
Republicans will start ranting about how societies
who've focused on inequality ended up communist.
Republicans rather focus on the qualities
that made America great in the first place:
economic growth, family values, rule of law.
In the Republican mode-of-thought inequality
is inevitable when you reward value because
not everyone provides an equal amount of value.
This is all correct.
But young people aren’t wrong either in
being concerned with inequality because as
we enter the Age of Abundance it’s natural
to ask the question, “Why do I have to work
so darn hard for so little?
Why is it that after graduating from college
and working two jobs so many of us still can’t
afford to buy or even rent our own home?
I grew up in Levittown, N.Y., the birthplace
of mass suburban home production…
Why is it that over 50 years later home prices
are still going up!?
They should be at an all-time low!
I should be able to get a home like this for
next to nothing…
But instead the rich buy up more and more
land, hoarding a limited resource so they
can charge exuberant prices to Renters.
We should build higher and higher into the
sky so the cost of living is so low everyone
can afford to own their own little slice of
heaven.
This is not some pie-in-the-sky idea.
Homelessness should be nonexistent in 21st
century America!
Rather than the government encouraging home-buying,
which ends up hurting the home-buyers (I’ll
break this down in an answer next week), it
should encourage home-building, which would
drive down the cost of housing.
Why in the 21st century must we slave away
working some job we feel like we get little
to no respect and whose purpose maybe questionable
at best?
Would the world be that much worse off if
everyone worked less?
We are all in some twisted rat race where
because you work 50 hours making a Coca-Cola
ad I need to work 55 hours making an even
more eye-catching Pepsi ad and if we play
this same scenario out all across society
what do we have to show for it?
Better ads?
Better products?
Better services?
But no time or energy to really enjoy them.
And more importantly no time or energy to
enjoy the company of our friends and family.
I think we’d all be happier if we worked
20% - 40% less even if it meant the quality
of our consumerism dropped by that much.
I’m okay waiting an extra 5 minutes for
my food or being inundated with less ads or
having less choice of soups in the grocery
store if it means me and my peers get to work
10 less hours a week to hangout and play football.
Previous generations will scold, “Why are
you complaining?
Back in my day I had to walk barefoot uphill
in the snow to get to the coal mine where
I worked from sunrise to sunset with nothing
to eat but an old biscuit.”
I respect my elders and my ancestors, but
the dream should always be to give our kids
and grandkids a better life than the one we
had.
It’s because we stand on the shoulders of
giants that we now have the privilege to gaze
further into the future and ask, “What is
the world we want to live in?”
In the Democratic mode-of-thought take from
the rich and give to you…
FREE healthcare, education, housing, income,
food, etc… because at the end of the day
everything under-the-sun is a basic human
right.
But I believe this is fundamentally wrong
and short-sighted because historically it
has led to bitterness, entitlement, economic
stagnation, and tyranny.
The Democratic mode-of-thought lacks imagination.
It looks at the world as it is and asks, “How
can I slice it up?” whereas the fate of
humanity depends upon the question, “How
can we create more?”
I believe we were put on Earth to create rather
than take.
It’s in our nature to want to contribute.
No one likes getting a handout.
We want to earn what we get.
As long
as there are problems in the world there is
a job to be done!
Instead of giving money to the poor we should
be creating jobs.
The goal of government shouldn't be to end
inequality, but to end unemployment!
When unemployment is ZERO then this is great
for everyone in society because it gives workers
more power to demand higher pay and better
working conditions.
The government should focus on creating jobs
in space, green technology, and medical research.
The government should offer more contracts
to private companies to solve our most pressing
problems instead of just giving money away
for people to sit, rot, and vote.
If you are conscious then you are capable
of contributing!
As I think about the future of the Republican
party I believe they shouldn’t dismiss inequality,
but acknowledge the problems associated with
it and then appeal to the youth vote by being
the party of the American Dream: equal opportunity,
employment, affordable housing, freedom, dignity,
and innovation!
This is the world I want to live in 
and I’m willing to fight for it!
