To Change The World Let’s Start With Ourselves

Nowadays, it’s becoming increasingly popular to see young people upset at the older generation for not solving, what they consider to be, extremely urgent problems.

Climate change, low minimum-wages, expensive health-care, and so many others.

While I’m not going to get into the politics of any of them, what I will do, risking upsetting some of you, is to argue why most people shouldn't be so focused on any of this.

Especially, young people…

…because:

“People who don't have their own houses in order should be very careful before they go about reorganizing the world.”

That’s quoting Jordan B. Peterson.

In this Q&A, he was asked the following question:

“How can young people even take personal responsibility if they’ll never have the financial means to own things to be responsible over? For example, a house, a car, a family.”

The woman who asked the question argued that when Jordan gives advice like “clean your room”, he doesn’t understand how some issues are so far out of their control, that taking personal responsibility wouldn’t help.