I tend to agree — things are a lot worse than when most FReepers were kids… heck, that's true even for the young FReepers!
A lot of people have mentioned childhood lawn-mowing businesses; but how many times have we seen the child's lemonade stand shut down by city officials
story?
A lot of people mention getting jobs as if you can just go outside, turn over a rock, and find a job; but how many jobs and companies have been shipped overseas?
Then there's the scorn for people living with parents (truly odd, considering multigenerational homes were the traditional norm in America), who seem utterly out-of-touch with the costs of housing today.
A lot of the harsh judgments here are operating as if massive regulatory burdens didn't exist, as if massive illegal-immigration weren't an issue, and as if there were no such thing as HR and political correctness.
I can tell you from experience that getting a job in my particular field isn't easy, despite it being STEM and the alleged STEM shortage (in reality it's that employers are trying to get senior-level talent on entry-level pay; combined with the massive H1B fraud used to depress the average wage in the field).
To all, I wasn’t meaning to insult people with age and wisdom! I was giving back because I am sick of people ripping the youth. Really? Isn’t that a little “done” since it was written in parchments 2000 years ago? Every older generation thinks less of the younger ones, and every older generation used to be the younger ones. It’s just a dumb argument that I get sick of. Being older doesn’t make you better. Sure, if you’ve been paying attention, it should make you wiser, but you show a LACK of wisdom if you rip the younger, less wise, by definition. Of course they re less wise; now do you feel superior since you chided them for their lack of years on this earth?