My son is 23. He’s married and has lots of friends his age, both married and single. I asked him the other day if any of his friends, or their spouses in the case of the married kids, were unemployed, and he said that everyone of his friends had jobs. Now, he’s fortunate, he has a job in his field, he did say some of his friends haven’t found jobs in their field of study, or were underpaid (his opinion), but they all were working. So it does make you wonder about these kids that are protesting. How are they financing their ability to go days w/out working? Who’s paying their bills?
That being said, I do believe unemployment is a real problem. But I think it’s harder for an older person to find a job these days that it is for the young people (especially college grads.) Corporations can get these kids “cheap” and let go their more experienced, higher paid employees.
I am sure a lot of those protestors are trust fund kids, middle-class and upper-middle class. They've had it too easy, and yet don't know how to provide for themselves. They have behavior issues because of divorce, neglect, bad parenting, other societal ills. It's a big tantrum against authority (proxy for their parents.)
It's also a lack of religion. People crave a purpose, something larger than themselves to give life meaning. In a godless world, politics--especially leftist idealism--fills that void. Not everyone is cut out to cope with an absurd, impersonal world.