[Prospero]

People don't ask to be born, let alone where or when. Any attempt to paint a complex situation in generational terms serves only to divide people along imaginary lines.

I could just as easily paint a picture that tries to fault "generations" for murdering their posterity.

These kind of arguments only appeal to simplistic, collectivist bigotry. It's just another way to evade personal responsibility, the payoff being an excuse from modifying one's own behavior because of being powerless over some abstraction's "fault."

"It's not fair!"

So what else in new?

I've got words of advice for these individuals fostering their resentment toward persons older than they. Look behind you, there's another, thinner but young, dumb and energetic crowd coming over the hill behind you. The line forms behind the equally stubborn and very large demographic abstraction ahead of you.

Take a number and be grateful you weren't exposed at birth or born during a plague. You might as well complain about the weather.

[eyedigress]

I disagree with that first part, but that’s a different story.

[Mr. K]

I love it when some young inexperienced kid out of college tells me how “its not fair”

I always tell them that that is something they never teach you in college, is it...