This page is a dispatch from the Ministry of Visibility—a refusal-coded audit of civic neglect disguised as strategy. What we’re witnessing isn’t planning. It’s creative accounting. A rerouting of responsibility dressed up as reform. When governments abandon youth and call it efficiency, we call it what it is: a roadmap to nowhere.
Strategic Roadmaps in Business vs. Government
In tech and business, roadmaps are strategic tools. They guide teams, set priorities, and align efforts toward a shared vision. When a team underperforms, leaders respond with retrospectives, restructuring, and recalibration. They ask: What have we tried? What worked? What didn’t? Failure is met with focus.
But in government departments, especially when it comes to vulnerable populations, failure is often met with silence.
The Withdrawal of Support for Under-20s
The recent withdrawal of support for under-20s is a textbook case. Instead of diagnosing what’s broken in youth employment pathways, the government shifted the burden to families—many of whom are already in crisis. It’s not a roadmap. It’s a rerouting of responsibility.
📉 These young people don’t get interviews. They don’t get asked, “Where do you want to be in five years?” Because they’ve been pushed into the too-hard basket. No roadmap. No vision. Just silence.
Civic Systems vs. Business Standards
In business, this would be unacceptable. Imagine a failing product team being told, “Just hand it off to the interns.” Yet in civic systems, we’ve normalized this. The department fails to deliver, and the fallout lands on parents, communities, and the young people themselves.
🧭 There’s no focus group. No audit. No diagnostic clarity. Just a quiet pivot: Let someone else deal with it.
The Paradox
The 'system' reroutes the responsibility to families with the least scaffolding, under the assumption they'll somehow reverse generational disadvantage wihout tools, support or structural repair.
We've given you the freedom to succeed now prove you deserve it !
Support is withdrawn.
Responsibility is Rerouted.
Failure is Reframed as Personal.
The Next Generation inherits the Gap.
And when the cycle repeats the system says : Why Didn't you fix it?
Political Priorities and Structural Neglect
Stunts like these aren’t just political theatre—they’re creative accounting with a public ledger. In business, disguising losses or rerouting liabilities gets you jail time. But in politics, the same maneuver is reframed as legacy management: blame the last government, rebrand the deficit, and dress a lemon up as an orange.
The narrative carries on, polished and palatable, while the truth is buried under optics. And because they were voted in to make decisions, they assume the disguise will hold. But when representation becomes performance, and accountability is rerouted into spin, the people aren’t just misled—they’re failed. The ledger doesn’t lie. It just waits for someone to read it properly.
Meanwhile, politicians prioritize broken windows—literally. Issues that affect them personally rise to the top. Laws are drafted to protect their own interests, while the structural issues facing young people remain untouched. We already have laws to manage harm. We don’t need special ones for politicians written by politicians.
The Real Roadmap Question
So what is the roadmap for our country?
Is it a strategic plan for civic elevation? Or just a countdown to the next election?
So what is the roadmap for our country?
Is it a strategic plan for civic elevation? Or just a countdown to the next election?
We’re told these are the best minds in the country. Not because they’ve earned it—but because they believe it, and they’re paid accordingly. They’re hired to do the hard jobs, not cast them aside when they get too hard.
Turning your back on complexity isn’t strategy. It’s surrender.
What these policymakers see in their own circles—polished CVs, curated success stories—is not the lived reality of many young people. If you want a real roadmap, work with them. Listen. Co-design. Don’t just juggle the numbers to make it work for yourself.
Not because it’s easy. But because you were successful. And you can help them see a path through.
Or is that not in your playbook?
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