We need to make adulthood more desirable
I think this article is skirting around the edge of the issue.  Yes, we need to make people more willing to enter adulthood.  Yes, adulthood has more responsibilities which should be more privileges.  The problem is that we&#x27;re granting privileges in society without the associated responsibility.<p>Only a fool would assume responsibility when there&#x27;s no benefit or requirement to do so.  This is the society we&#x27;ve created for people.  They&#x27;re only just using it to their advantage, and I can&#x27;t blame them.<p>Instead of drinking, driving, voting, etc... Being conveyed at an age perhaps there&#x27;s some other meaningful metric that could be used in combination with a minimum age.<p>One idea I&#x27;ve considered, but not fully, is the idea of being able to vote only if you pay taxes.  The adage was &quot;no taxation without representation&quot; but what we&#x27;ve constructed is &quot;representation without taxation&quot; in a large portion of the population.<p>Despite all the uproar over anything federal in the US, governance is still primarily at the state and local levels.  Since nearly everyone pays some sort of state or local tax (income, sales, property, etc...) Voting would remain intact for nearly everyone at the level that really matters.  The federal level it would not be as the number of tax payers is a lot less because it&#x27;s primarily income based.<p>Obviously this isn&#x27;t a fully fleshed out idea, but putting an incentive to monetarily participate in society needs to be strong one.  With no skin in the game, so to speak, you have no incentive to consider both the collective good with your own good.