Why would young people rather be unemployed than find jobs?

The truly valuable thing in this world is not money or assets, but human labor.

Young people simply can't tolerate this generation of elderly people getting something for nothing—using money and property of little real value to freeload off their precious labor.

What is the value of money? It lies in its ability to exchange for human labor. It's like having tons of money in a desert—it's worthless because there's nowhere to spend it.

So we can think of money as a labor bond. When someone provides labor to society but doesn't need to consume right away, they receive money. Later, when they need others' services, they exchange this money for others' labor.

Unlike regular bonds, the owner of money is clearly defined, but the debtors whose labor they exchange it for are undefined.

From the perspective of a young person with little savings, they have no money while most of the world's wealth is held by the elderly. Therefore, they must sell their labor to exchange for those colorful pieces of paper in the elderly's hands. We could say young people are born into a huge labor debt to the elderly.

This makes us ask: Why do young people become debtors the moment they're born, having done nothing?

Who determines how much labor the elderly's money is worth?

And finally, after young people repay their labor debts, what do they gain? Why must young people inherently be labor debtors?

Because most of the world's labor is in the hands of young people. For wealthy elderly people, to make their money valuable, they must burden young people with labor debt.

That's why elderly people can't stand seeing young people lying flat—when young people stop working, the elderly become like rich people in a desert where money has no meaning.

But do young people willingly accept being debtors? They naturally thought: since I've given you labor, you must repay me. That repayment is transferring the elderly's money—labor bonds—to young people's hands.

Then when this generation of young people grows old, they can demand labor debt from the next generation. You can see that money's value is built on a mechanism similar to a Ponzi scheme.

Money earned when young always requires the next generation of young people to cash it in. This is why elderly people always ask young people, "How will you survive when you're old if you don't save money?"

So what is the legal basis for this elderly people's labor debt claims on young people? And at what ratio should it be exchanged for labor?

Both questions are entirely decided by the elderly themselves.

When a young person just arrived in this world faces a group of elderly people who control most of the wealth and social resources, they won't question why these elderly have so much labor debt or where they got these bonds from. Even if they ask, it's futile—at best they can only sigh that the previous generation caught a good era.

In short, when the elderly say they own debt claims on young people, they truly do.

And at what ratio should their wealth be exchanged for labor? That's also decided by the elderly.

Take housing, for example. They're essentially non-scarce concrete boxes. After the elderly monopolized them, they drove up prices on their own, then declared: this concrete box is worth thirty years of a young person's labor. Then through various means, they forced young people to fulfill their debt obligations, draining their labor this way.

Now young people have had enough and no longer recognize the elderly's debt claims. The elderly panicked.

Finally, I want to say this: those wealthy elderly appear to have money and power, but actually they have nothing.

Young people gave them their strength, which is why they can enjoy their power.

This is one of the fundamental logics of human society operation—true not just in peace time but in chaos as well.

For instance, in chaotic times, if someone wants to conquer the world, they must first use money and grain to recruit soldiers—essentially converting wealth into soldiers' labor.

What if soldiers don't recognize his debt claims and just rob his money and grain?

This requires him to have his first batch of loyal followers, which is also the barrier to entry for starting a business in chaotic times.

Once he develops and expands, he'll distribute his power to the first batch of collaborators, letting them also own debt claims on later arrivals.

Thus, a country is built just like a pyramid scheme.

Today's young people broadly refuse to cheapen their labor because this generation of creditors is simply too shameless—they only think about squeezing out the last drop of young people's labor, not letting them have a chance to own their own debt claims.

Ultimately, this generation of elderly caught a good era and succeeded too easily. Some without vision or ambition still ended up in high positions, and as a result, they've made the world like this.