College Student: My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity around Us

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[Windflier]

An amazingly concise and accurate statement from a millenial who truly gets it.

[easternsky]

Very good

[Equine1952]

This is most amazing. 26 years old and viola! He gets it. Now with the way his generation treats views counter to their own, he may need to keep it to himself or start carrying a firearm. I lived long enough to see things developed, color tv, cell phones, computers that don’t fill a room, etc. I think he has a huge and valid point. They also didn’t learn you have to work to get those finer things and Freedom Ain’t Free.

[aquila48]

The disease is called “Affluenza”.

The good news is that it contains its own cure. The bad news, the cure won’t be fun.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Jordan Peterson talks about this a lot.

[Vince Ferrer]

It would shock a lot of people that it wasn't that long ago that people could not go to a grocery store at any day of year and buy whatever they wanted, like fresh fruits. Those were seasonal, if they were available at all. Now the food industry is an incredible logistics machine that moves a country's worth of fruits and vegetables from the tropics to every city and town on this continent.

Louis CK Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy

[21twelve]

And “near Nokomis” probably refers to Lake Nokomis, in Minneapolis. So even a millenial in Liberal land gets it.

[TChad]

Sanity, clarity, honesty.

Write a book!

[Equine1952]

Not trying to pour cold water on your idea cause I think the kid may be a little sharper knife in the drawer than most his age. The question to me is would any left leaning kids his age read it? Their parents apparently didn’t.

[Bellagio]

The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.

The same zombie brainwashed ignoramus generation indoctrinated by the communist faculty of both public schooling and higher learning. These entitled brats are programmed to believe that Barry Hussein Soetoro is the greatest president ever to walk the earth. An opinion ground into the minds of these impressionable children since grade school by the MSM, public schools & college, social media and their iphones. These hate-filled zombies NEVER having lived as an adult under any other president and having never lived as an adult ON THEIR OWN under any other president. Most of these brats were 8-9yrs old when Obama became the first mulatto fraud POS/POTUS.

Nefarious and treasonous agenda is what the progressives have managed to accomplish in 20 years. And NOBODY to stop them until Trump was elected. The conservatives didn't cause Trump to be elected... Obama did.

[TChad]

Hmm. You may have a point. I have the impression that few of them read books for pleasure. Maybe a magazine article would be better.

[Secret Agent Man]

Many do not know true personal hardship.

[Reeses]

Wealth doesn’t make you happy, relative wealth to your neighbors does. There are two ways to boost your social rank: climb up, or bring many others down. Leftists are people that find it far easier to bring others down.

[grateful]

When I was their age, I couldn’t carry a phone, the internet, a tv, a radio, a business directory, a calendar, a global map, stock reports, weather reports, thousands of store catalogs, an encyclopedia, a camera, and a thousand other things in my pocket all at the same time. Smartphones alone make millennials one of the richest, most privileged, most prosperous generations there is. And that’s just ONE thing.

[thoughtomator]

most of that generation have no real access to any substantial amount of that wealth though... it’s an other people thing for them alien to their personal experience

their actual living standard in general is like Eastern Europe under Communism

[varyouga]

“most of that generation have no real access to any substantial amount of that wealth though... it’s an other people thing for them alien to their personal experience”

Bingo. Except for the few high paying jobs in tech, they are struggling. I know engineers and actuarial scientists who cannot afford to live without room mates into their early 30s. Costs have outpaced salaries by a huge margin.

I was able to put the down payment on a modest house and put myself through college working as a driver with reasonable hours before the age of 25. Never happening in today’s economy...

[Jeff Chandler]

most of that generation have no real access to any substantial amount of that wealth though

If they're so poor then why are they so fat?

Poor people in the U.S. live better than kings did 200 years ago.

[thoughtomator]

> If they’re so poor then why are they so fat?

Because they’re so poor they can’t even afford real food, and instead they get these fattening, low-nutrition food substitutes. That’s why poor and fat trend together now.

[thoughtomator]

> Poor people in the U.S. live better than kings did 200 years ago.

A wild exaggeration that tells me you don’t have much experience interacting with the poor.

The lives of the poor in the US may include things like electricity, refrigeration, air conditioning and modern communications, but in all other aspects of life there is no serious comparison to be made.

[Soul of the South]

“Poor people in the U.S. live better than kings did 200 years ago.”

Poor people in the US today live better than 95% of the people on the planet today.