so take your "lamest" and apply to your own kids if you want....
its MUCH MUCH harder for these younger people no matter what they do , they're not getting anywhere too quick...
you would think the older generations would try to inspire and educate instead of deride....
It's the air of bewildered, frustrated, entitlement which annoys oldsters, I deem.
People of boomer days and the youngest GenXers had enough sense (not having been raised in the cocoon of totally dumbed-down schools and MTV or worse) knew that there are things out of the control of the individual, whether enemies, trends, natural disasters, or what not, which could derail one's plans, or that of one's generation.
That's just life.
Many of the youngsters (I suppose) have been told all their lives that they're special, and that the Red Sea would part just for them. While at the same time, the powers that be were carefully destroying all opportunities FOR the middle class via offshoring, downsizing, affirmative action, political correctness, wholesale importation of women into the workforce, illegal immigration, H1-B visas, exponential growth in taxes and regulation, and the aforementioned destruction of education (and the undermining of both the nuclear and extended family).
And NOW they have the nerve to look surprised!
The demographics of the US are shrinking: and a fractional reserve economy, based on margins, and indeed the entire governmental approach, is implicitly geared to the assumption of demographic growth.
Now that aging, abortion, and the attack on chastity and the family are taking their toll, nobody remembers what used to be, why it worked, or how to get us back there.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
“you would think the older generations would try to inspire and educate instead of deride....”
Easier to deride then to do something constructive.
I don’t have a problem with boomer folks working as long as they want. I do have a problem with boomer folks voting in their goody train, and raising taxes on us younguns killing our jobs, and restricting us.