Opting out

Henry Fudge’s essay Degeneracy Is A Symptom is bleak and clarifying. Consider what it means to be a young adult in a developed economy, and consider it across the same three stages. In the hedge stage of being alive (call it 1955 to roughly 1975 in the Anglosphere), a median wage covers the median life. You leave school, you get a job, you find a partner, you buy a house at three or four times…