To be young and stupid.
Is this the same stupid magazine that Dr Hook used to sing about? We keep getting richer, but we can’t get our picture on the cover of the rolling stone.
It would blow if the Rolling Stone paid this child for his little book report.
That would mean the rich people that publish RS blow. It also means that the kid is a budding capitalist, which blows.
It never ceases to amaze me: the people that shout the loudest about the greatness of communism are the same people that do anything necessary to safeguard their own property/money.
The terrible thing about socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money!
Ever notice how the Red Diaper demographic never changes over the decades?
How about redistributing all of the wealth of the East Coast to the southern states? Let some of the ultra-pampered Communists, reared in luxury and sent to sit at the feet of Leftist instructors in Ivy League universities, go work on a ranch in Wyoming or a food truck in Texas. That would broaden their deformed view of life outside the gated enclaves of their upbringing.
The conditions that existed in the USSR are well documented. We need to just build a wall around Detroit or somewhere, relocate any productive people who live there, if any are found and build a replica of the USSR. Then we could move geniuses like this, democrat congress members and their ilk and they could live the remainder of their wretched lives in soviet splendor. He could even write about it for all of us rubes assuming he could find paper and a pencil.
There are several respects in which the young do get screwed. After getting the needed job training the price for which is an outrage, they are usually deep in debt. They start life with a tax system that penalizes family formation. They find a job market in ruins, paying a fraction of what their forebears did. They both have to work to fund housing with a price massively inflated by regulatory government, pay a hugely regressive social security tax, to cover their parents, and also have to send their kids to very expensive daycare because the grandparents can't be bothered and want to "enjoy their retirement" in a home with more room than they can use. The employer often demands excessive amounts of travel. They taxes they pay for the welfare state supports an underclass that threatens their safety. To buy a house means more debt, usually for the rest of their working lives. Raised by liberal teachers and mass media advertising, their expectations of "a happy life" are outrageous. Because they cannot afford private or home education, their kids, also raised the inflated expectations of mass media and educrats, wind up a mess, which adds to the overall stress of the situation. There are fights; there is blame. Meanwhile, the divorce industry is circling above, waiting to pick the bones clean. All they can see is a future of a government going broke and handing them the bill.
Too bad they have been conditioned all their lives to fail to see that it is socialism that has done this to them. They have never been educated in the mechanics of liberty. They have no memes to grasp a way out. Even if they did get how they'd been had and what to do, it's going to be a very long slog against very heavy odds for them to dig out of the mess their forebears have made.
I would say that all of that "blows." No wonder they want our stuff.
There are a very few millennial software engineers and professionals that can afford this burden, but the work demands are so excessive that I can't see how the family won't end up under enormous stress unless the grandparents help. This is a sociological construct guaranteed to destroy the middle class, added to a demographic construct dedicated to doing the same.
It is very useful to look at how hunter-gatherer societies deal with these same problems. I recommend David Kelly's book, The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter Gatherer Lifeways.