Teenagers

In contemporary America, teenagers (and many post-adolescents as well) are a purely parasitic class. They expect to have almost all the freedoms of adults; they expect to have as full a range of activities and amusements as adults (or even fuller). Yet because of the paucity of part-time jobs (taken by desperate adults these days), most of them can contribute absolutely nothing financially to the arrangement. All of teenagers' and college students' needs and wants, from clothing to cell phones to cars, from music to extreme sports, from junior proms to tuition, must be provided by parents who make enough money to subsidize all that. In the New American Economy we've created, I don't see how it can go on.