Nearly 3.5 Billion Young People — Give Them a Civilization Worth Building.
Trott Bailey Family Civilization · LuvYou Caterports
Nearly 3.5 Billion Young People Need a Future
Free Travel, LuvYou Caterports and a New Field of Human Contribution
The number is rounded from United Nations population data. In 2025, the world had about 8.23 billion people, with 24.4%—about 2 billion—between ages 0 and 14. The United Nations separately estimates about 1.3 billion people between ages 15 and 24. Adding those who are age 25 brings the total to roughly 3.4 billion people, which we round here as nearly 3.5 billion. (unstats.un.org)
The youngest among them are babies and children. They are not looking for work today.
That is exactly why the number matters.
They are the enormous generation already here, growing behind the young people who are struggling to find useful work today.
And the existing employment system is nowhere near ready for what is coming.
That leaves nearly 800 million young people without a clear path to employment under the existing system. (worldbank.org)
The problem already exists.
The International Labour Organization reports that in 2025 about 67 million people ages 15 to 24 were unemployed, while more than 257 million young people were not in employment, education or training. (ilo.org)
These numbers raise a civilization-level question.
The usual answer is that governments need to create more jobs and businesses need to employ more people.
That is not enough.
The deeper problem is not that humanity is running out of useful work.
The deeper problem is that our employment system cannot connect enough people to all the useful work that needs doing.The Trott Bailey Family’s advocacy for free travel and its development of LuvYou Caterports offers another path.
Not simply more jobs.
A vastly larger field of useful work, training, capability and contribution.
There Is No Shortage of Useful Work
Look around the Earth.
Things need building.
Things need repairing.
Food needs growing.
Children need care.
Land needs restoring.
Machines need maintaining.
Transport needs expanding.
Buildings need cleaning.
Water systems need improving.
People need feeding.
New technology needs inventing.
Communities need connecting.
Young people need training.
There is no shortage of useful work.
At the same time, millions of young people sit unemployed.
That is an extraordinary contradiction.
The work exists.The people exist.
Yet the work and the people remain separated because the money connection has not been made.
The conventional employment system asks:
If the answer is no, the young person can remain unemployed even while useful work sits undone all around them.
Trott Bailey Family Civilization asks something much simpler:
That is a completely different way of organizing human capability.
LuvYou Does Not Need to Manufacture Hundreds of Millions of Jobs
This distinction matters.
LuvYou Caterports are part of a money-free civilization system.
Their answer to youth unemployment is not to become one gigantic employer offering hundreds of millions of wage jobs.
That would simply reproduce the same employment model at a larger scale.
LuvYou attacks the deeper separation.
There is useful work that needs doing.
There are young people who want somewhere meaningful to contribute.
Bring those two things together.
Train people where training is needed.
Give them real responsibilities.
Let them become capable.
Let them become excellent.
The objective is not:
It is:
That question creates a much larger field.
Free Travel Releases Movement Demand
LuvYou begins with another major decision:
Travel is a right.The traveller is not asked to pay.
Remove the payment gate and human desire to move that was previously hidden behind price becomes visible.
People who wanted to travel but could not afford it can now move.
Families travel.
Young people travel.
Children see more of the Earth.
Grandparents visit family.
People move for curiosity, learning, relationships, rest, contribution and adventure.
Travel demand rises.
That creates another question:
When it cannot, Trott Bailey Family Civilization does not use price to push people back out.
The civilization expands capacity.
That is where free travel becomes much more than a benefit given to travellers.
Free travel creates a new development pressure.More movement requires more capability.
Capacity Requires Human Capability
More people travelling means more aircraft capacity.
More rail.
More sea movement.
More local transport.
More Caterports.
More routes.
More food.
More places to rest.
More baggage movement.
More maintenance.
More energy.
More construction.
More software.
More care.
More environmental stewardship.
More manufacturing.
More design.
More people who know how all these systems work.
That creates an enormous field of useful contribution.
Aircraft need people who can design, build, inspect, repair, clean and operate them.
Rail systems need builders, engineers, operators, maintenance specialists and route teams.
Ships need crews, mechanics, navigators, cooks and technicians.
Caterports need food teams, childcare, cleaning, gardens, bathing spaces, sleeping spaces, baggage movement, routing, maintenance, health support, language support and traveller care.
Movement systems need programmers.
Weather specialists.
Energy teams.
Water specialists.
Builders.
Growers.
Designers.
Researchers.
Inventors.
And people capable of looking at an existing travel system and saying:
Free travel releases movement demand.
Movement demand requires capacity.
Capacity requires human capability.
That is the connection.
The Young Person Does Not Need to Arrive Already Capable
A civilization cannot complain that young people lack experience and then refuse to give them experience.
A young person does not need to arrive knowing how to repair an aircraft.
Start with:
Then train them.
Who is fascinated by engines?
Who wants to build?
Who loves cooking?
Who wants to care for children?
Who enjoys putting spaces into perfect order?
Who wants to work with computers?
Who loves plants?
Who wants to understand weather?
Who wants to navigate?
Who wants to design vehicles?
Who loves precision?
Who wants to make travel better?
Ask.
Expose young people to real work.
Let them discover what fits.
Let them change direction when it does not.
Let them practice.
Let them master things.
A civilization containing billions of young people should be extraordinarily good at turning curiosity into capability.Stop Assuming Nobody Wants to Do the Difficult Work
One of the first questions people ask about a money-free civilization is:
Ask people first.
Human beings are not copies of one another.
One person hates working with engines.
Another can spend the entire day taking one apart.
One person hates cleaning.
Another takes enormous satisfaction in putting a place into perfect order.
One person cannot imagine caring for children all day.
Another cannot imagine doing anything else.
One person hates being at sea.
Another feels alive there.
One person finds repeated technical inspection unbearable.
Another loves precision.
Find the people who genuinely want the work.
Train them.
Improve the work.
Build better tools.
Automate what deserves automation.
Redesign bad working conditions.
Young people should not inherit miserable work simply because earlier generations failed to improve it.
LuvYou Creates Work That Does Not Exist Yet
A worldwide free-travel system needs far more than the occupations found in today’s airports.
LuvYou Caterport is not today’s airport with the ticket price removed.
Its purpose is to advance travel.
That means young people are not only needed to operate existing systems.
They are needed to help create new ones.
Why are families still dragging huge amounts of their temporary household through the world?
Why is sleeping during long journeys still so poorly designed?
Why are air, rail, road and sea still broken into separate travel experiences?
Why do some journeys leave people exhausted even when the technology moving them is extraordinary?
Why are some parts of the Earth still difficult to reach?
How should children travel?
How should elderly people travel?
How should belongings move separately from people?
What should very high-capacity travel become?
What should extremely fast travel become?
What should beautiful slow travel become?
What kinds of vehicles have never been invented?
What kinds of Caterports need to exist on islands, in mountains, forests, deserts and dense cities?
These questions represent entire fields of useful work that do not fully exist yet.
Give young people access to problems this large and they stop being a generation waiting for somebody to post a vacancy.
They become a generation helping to build something.
The World Says There Are Not Enough Jobs
The World Bank’s numbers are stark.
Only around 420 million jobs are expected to be created.
The World Bank describes the difference as nearly 800 million young people without a clear path to prosperity under current projections. (worldbank.org)
That statement deserves another question:
Of course not.
The Earth still has an enormous amount to build, repair, grow, maintain, restore, discover and invent.
The shortage is not useful work.
The shortage is a system capable of connecting human beings to useful work without first requiring somebody to make money from employing them.Nearly 3.5 Billion Young People Are Not the Problem
The language matters.
Nearly 3.5 billion human beings are age 25 or younger.
They should not be discussed as though humanity has produced too many young people.
They are not an employment burden waiting for governments and corporations to absorb them.
They are an enormous reserve of human capability arriving on an Earth with an enormous amount left to build.
The youngest are still children.
Behind them comes the next group.
And the next.
The question is whether civilization gives them useful things to become good at.
That requires more than telling them to search for vacancies.
It requires building large systems that need their participation.
Free travel is one of those systems.
Free Travel Creates a Growing Field of Contribution
The relationship works in both directions.
Free travel releases human movement demand.
Movement demand pushes the civilization to expand capacity.
Expanded capacity creates useful work.
Useful work creates a need for training.
Training creates human capability.
Greater capability improves travel.
Better travel allows the system to expand again.
The cycle becomes:
This is not a fixed employment program with a limited number of positions.
It is an expanding civilization project.
More people wanting to travel gives the system more reason to grow.
More growth gives young people more places to contribute.
More capable young people give the system more ability to grow again.
Young People Need Something Worth Building
Youth unemployment is not only a problem of income.
Young people need direction.
They need difficult problems.
They need responsibility.
They need somewhere to put ambition.
They need opportunities to discover what they are good at.
They need to become useful.
They need to become excellent.
They need to be able to look at the world and say:
I helped build that.A worldwide free-travel system provides an enormous range of ways to say those words.
Not everybody becomes a pilot.
One person grows food.
Another repairs a rail vehicle.
Another cares for travelling children.
Another designs a sleeping space.
Another restores the landscape around a Caterport.
Another improves baggage routing.
Another keeps a public space beautifully clean.
Another designs software.
Another studies wind.
Another builds.
Another cooks.
Another invents something nobody had thought to build before.
Different abilities become different parts of the same civilization project.
From Youth Unemployment to Youth Capability
The world talks about a youth employment crisis.
Trott Bailey Family Civilization asks a deeper question.
A young person should not spend some of the strongest learning years of life waiting to be selected.
The young person should be learning.
Building.
Helping.
Trying.
Discovering.
Taking responsibility.
Improving.
Contributing.
LuvYou Caterports create one enormous field in which this can happen because they connect a basic human desire—the desire to move through the Earth—with a civilization commitment to provide that movement freely.
The world wants to move.
So build the capacity.
The capacity needs people.
So train people.
People become capable.
Their capability advances travel.
Travel grows.
And more useful work appears.
That is not simply job creation.
That is civilization development.Give This Generation Something to Do
Nearly 3.5 billion people alive today are age 25 or younger.
Over the next decade, 1.2 billion young people in the Global South will become working-age adults.
The existing system is expected to create only around 420 million jobs for that enormous generation. (worldbank.org)
Today, 67 million young people are already unemployed, and more than 257 million are outside employment, education and training. (ilo.org)
Those numbers do not describe a generation without value.
They describe systems that are nowhere near large enough for the human capability arriving.
So build larger systems.
Build free travel.
Build Caterports.
Build aircraft.
Build rail.
Build ships.
Build food systems.
Build care systems.
Build energy systems.
Build training systems.
Build new forms of movement.
Then invite young people into the work.
Ask what they want to learn.
Train them.
Give them responsibility.
Let them become capable.
Let them contribute.
Let them invent.
Stop asking hundreds of millions of young human beings to wait for somebody to decide they are profitable enough to employ.
The world’s young people do not need to become the employment problem of the future.
Give them a civilization worth building, and let them help build it.
