An open letter to every politician on every level of government.

 Every form of government and all sides of politics from the red shirts to the blue shirts to the minority parties and individuals leading our country from Malcom Turnbull, to Bill Shorten, Annastacia Palaszczuk and Tim Nichols and even Pauline Hansen all the way down to local mayors and councillors around the nation are always spruiking feel good statements like the following at every media opportunity they get.

 ‘We will create jobs for our young people’

‘Young people need hope and we must provide them jobs for their future’.

‘We are investing in job creation for the next generation’

 STOP IT!

 These statements are out of touch, outdated and frankly infuriating as a young person and especially as an entrepreneur who is committed to helping young people get into business for themselves but more importantly I want to educate people younger than me that with today’s incredible advances you can be, and do, whatever you want with your life.

 The world truly has become your oyster and you do not need a job! You can create yourself an income and live life on your terms doing something you are truly passionate about.

 The way they are looking to create jobs is to bury their head in the sand and pretend like technology cannot replace half the workforce because whether we like it or not. Technology is here to stay and we need to embrace the change.  People should be focused on bettering humanity not doing jobs a half decent robot can do.

You insist that you must create jobs for the youth. 

Do you want to know what I hear when you say that statement?

“The youth are clueless and we need to make them follow our system”

 I’m not sure if you have seen where your system has gotten us but it isn’t a pretty picture.

I have seen what working a job gets people and it is no wonder divorce rates are huge, domestic violence keeps rising and drugs are destroying more lives than ever. The system is broken. You are taking away hope from the youth that I know you care so much about.

This letter is a call to get your heads out of the sand and embrace the fascinating and limitless world that we as young people have in front of us. Encourage us to create income for ourselves.We want to live life on our terms and sure, it might not be the cookie cutter life your generation grew up aspiring to and some of us don’t want to buy a house with a white picket fence, while we go to our jobs earning just enough to pay the mortgage, pay enormous amounts of tax, pay our electricity bills and household costs and maybe, just maybe we can afford a holiday once a year if we are lucky.

 Young people want to be free to live life how we want and the way to have freedom is to be in control of our time. Now I have only been on this planet for 25 years but in that time, I know a few things to be absolute certainties in life.

 

1.My wife is my soulmate and we are perfect for each other.

2.Working for someone is selling the only resource you have that is not renewable. (Time)

3.The only way to live free is to be an entrepreneur and create your own income and work on your terms.

Now, I am definitely not alone as Pedals has grown rapidly and will continue to explode because we are providing young people something that puts them in the driver’s seat of life.

Are we creating jobs for young people! NO. And I take offense anyone who says we are! A job is sacrificing your most valuable asset for a measly wage of which a big chunk goes back to a government who does not understand us. Pedals gives young people the chance to create an income for themselves on their terms.

And that, my fellow citizens in charge of running this beautiful country is what youth are crying out to be given to them. An opportunity to thrive.

Freedom to live life on our terms which means change and I know that scares you because you have gotten used things being the same way for so long and treating young people as if we are clueless and wasting our lives but do you want to know something funny. Knowledge is power and do you realise that I have humanities collective knowledge available for my perusal at a moment’s notice and I carry it with me everywhere I go.

Hand over the reins and encourage the next generation to build their own future because if me and my fellow young people are anything to go from. The future is now and we can’t wait to show you what we can do