Dragonlady
Designing Woman
Work for yourself and save for your own retirement, and you will fair better than your parents. Rely on the government or anyone else to provide for you and you deserve the scraps they brush off the table in your direction. Selling people on the idea they should become dependent on anyone else is just selling them short in whatever market you are trying to peddle that bullshit.
Everyone is dependent on someone else. If you own a business, you are dependent on your employees to show up and do their jobs, because if they don't, you have nothing. You're dependent on staff to provide good service to your customers so they'll keep coming back. You're dependent on your customers having jobs and being able to afford your products. You're dependent on the police, the fire department, and your government to provide stability and infrastructure.
Unless you live off the grid, growing your own food, and foraging, sewing your own clothes, from cloth you're woven, using tools you created yourself, you're dependent on others.