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Advice for young career focused folk based on "choosing between poverty and debt"

Have read an ambiguous article today about " Young People in the UK to Choose Between Poverty and Debt ". What is apparent, there are socio-economical issues that the UK people would like to resolve: growing unemployment growing poverty young people sitting on welfare payments competition from skilled people from other countries The initiative David Cameron announced sounds very interesting, especially in it's part where jobless "would have to accept mandatory 'community work'" if failing to find employment within reasonable timeframe. I would like to highlight some failing points in the article that are presenting the initiative as "predictably vindictive" and with permission from a reader to provide advice to "young" persons like me. One of the complaints is low level of payment for apprenticeship and for young men and women who just finished studies. This claim is based on presumption that every business owner (and...

Young people not having sex - Japan

Have been reflecting on this issue recently. The modern society base everything on career success, wealth, prosperity, self esteem, ego-centrism. We live in capitalism. It is obvious for many people that children are big responsibility and effort mentally, monetary and physically. Therefore it is apparent that when you have a baby it's extremely hard in contemporary state of society to raise it properly without diminution of pleasures or even opportunities to enjoy your own life as you want it. Not even slightest idea of any dependents. Sex is integral part of intimate relationship between healthy people. So it's a delight seeing many young Japanese people who have a very logical thinking and therefore don't start any relationship, because it is very rational decision for the reasons I provided above. There is an awesome movie Paris, je t'aime . One of the stories from that movie is when someone called Ana leaves her child at daycare to go and babysit some ...