▶ Your Answer : Some people might think that young people today affect the important decisions that determine the future society. However, I believe that these days, young people have no influence on the important decisions for the future society for the two reasons. First of all, many of young people today do not vote. Casting a vote is one way to exert influence on the decisions for the future society because the statesmen chosen by young people establish laws, which can change the society. Understanding the people's lives is necessary to substantiate that people do not cast a vote. Young people understand that it is important to vote. However, since they are stressed out by unreasonable workload, they usually go trip with their family or take a rest without voting on polling day. Hence, they cannot have influence on important decisions that can change their society. For example, most of my friends are workers. On last Election Day, they had a day off, but they did not vote because they were so tired that they decided to take a rest at home and forgot to cast a vote. On top of that, these days young people do not pay attention to the social issues. In response to the increasing importance of young people's social participation, many expert opinions and research statistics reinforce the idea that young people are not interested in the issues related to the future society. Experts say that since it is important for young people to survive cut-throat competition, they are less interested in the social issues than the people were in the past. People in the past read newspapers and watched television to realize what was going on outside. However, these days people just focus on how to be successful at work without paying attention to the events in the society, which leads to young people's having no influence on the important decisions for the future society. For example, I am not interested in social issues because it is important for me to maintain my current position and earn money. If I do not achieve a proper level of performance, my job is not guaranteed. Therefore, after work or even on weekends, I study English or learn modeling techniques to survive competition.
To sum up, I believe that these days, young people have no influence on the important decisions for the future society for the two reasons. Consequently, the importance of my view cannot be underestimated for the reasons I mentioned above.
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