Today I talk to people in their twenties: smart, driven, doing everything they were told to do and they’re exhausted before they even get started. Degree in hand, debt on their back, living with their parents... The problem isn’t that this generation is softer. The problem is that the rules changed and nobody bothered to update the instruction manual.

It all begins with an idea.Here’s the deeper problem: we’ve turned employment into rental. ... You don’t share in the upside, but you absolutely share in the downside. When the quarter gets tight, you’re gone. ... You’re not building a career. You’re renting your time.

We have more 20- and early-30-somethings living with their parents than we’ve seen in generations. Commentators call it 'failure to launch'... Look at it another way: If you’re carrying student debt, working in an unbundled job, and paying high rent... moving home can be the one rational move left on the board

Here is the hard truth: A small business in Longview or Ilwaco cannot compete with Amazon or Google on benefits. They just can’t. They don’t have the scale... Prosperity-Works changes the math by changing the scale. Instead of 50 businesses negotiating alone, we negotiate as a block... Suddenly, the math flips.