When people say the opposite, Like, oh I don’t have to worry about it, Ill be dead, I get hot.
Young people are footing the bill for Medicare, Medicaid, SS, and now they cannot have medical care, or pay ten thousand per year, premiums, and deductibles, or no care pay a fine, while college tuition has soared past inflation, to meet no workforce participation, forget! unemployment cooked numbers.
They cannot get married, can’t start families, and they’re not supposed to practice birth control, and they shouldn’t, but the Catholic Church could address this from the hierarchy instead of pushing for immigration and lecturing on economics, ThIS is a real problem people will find when it bites them.
But only those looking for sainthood will spen the time of day taking care of an elderly mother who dumped them into daycare when they cried all day for the mothers, or the absentee or philandering father, and forget it if there’s an abortion to be learned of of a sibling.
This is a force that will come around. And they will not like this regime, nor anyone who exhibits an attitude of, you kids owe me, and deal with my debt after I’m dead.
Old peple, older people and aunts and uncles, neighbors have much to do to quit whining and realize they have an opportunity to fix this problem looming on the horizon for these kids. They will not be kind to us if we don’t do our jobs and try a whole lot harder.
We will NOT be seen as the greatest generation or any part of it. That is our choice.
But to loathe them is a huge mistake.
It should be voting age 21, draft age 21, volunteer service 18, and quit blaming these victims of Viet Nam era politics for not knowing how to vote.
Baby Boomers grow UP
I can't counsel a young man or woman to go to college, more often than not. They'd be far better off learning a trade, be it as an electrician, a plumber, an auto technician, whatever. My generation winked at the cosmetology school bunch, but now, if they are any good, they are going to be more likely to be making money if they pursued their trade than the ones who went to college and got a degree in advanced tiddleywinks. It makes no sense to incur 80-120,000 dollars in debt for a degree to qualify for a job that will pay 30K, or one where the hiring rate is similar to the number of HS basketball players who go on to the NBA. Better to have a lawn mowing/snow removal service and make a living.
Enterprising youth can be mentored, guided around pitfalls, and some of the seemingly slothful (who are only lost, who just can't see how to get from point 'a' to point 'b') can be motivated.
If an older generation wants the younger one to pick up the tab, as many of us have done for the generations which preceded us, we'd best better get our cheeks in gear and make sure the young have the skills to be successful, whether that takes a lawnmower, rake, and weedeater, or a PhD. Not everyone is cut out for college, anyway, and the glut of 4-year degrees in useless nonsense has devalued the hard science, mathematics, and engineering degrees out there.
We were all robbed in the '60s by the two paycheck family concept, which became prevalent enough to drive inflation to the point where few could afford to live on only one paycheck. Suckered, plain and simple.
My family doesn't do "day care". The kids are left with relatives while mom and dad work, and the grandparents, uncles, and aunts have some input into the development of the children in the family. We look out for our own, and frequently, their friends as well.
I'm not sure where America got suckered into thinking of each generation as a distinct and separate entity, except that it damages family continuity where the concept is accepted, and leaves people open to the same scams, generation after generation. Interaction between the (Great) grandparents and the newest group of kids provides the wisdom of the elders on tap for the youngest, and all in between. All benefit. In the end, it is up to all individuals how they handle their own family affairs, but it is foolish to deride those who led the way or who just need some leadership.
That may seem archaic to some, but it works. Besides, human nature stays much the same, only the fixtures and trimmings change.