So, I had covid month before last and watched daytime TV while recuperating on the sofa.
I happened to catch The Price is Right and there was a girl who had just turned 18 who made it up on stage. She won her game and advanced to the actual showcase part of the show when her spin beat the other contestants. She was euphoric - outright giddy and laughing and smiling. When she got to her showcase and it was her time to bid, everyone in the audience was screaming out numbers and she bid over $50k on her her $30,000-ish showcase. The crowd booed at her high bid and she yelled out, “I just bid what they told me to!” and she looked like she was going to cry.
When they came back from commercials, she was distraught and didn’t smile again when her bid was an overbid and the other contestant won.
She had sailed through with good bids and won her game, spinning the wheel and I got the feeling that she expected to continue her win all the way through. It was odd as everyone else took their losses in stride but she didn’t look like she had ever NOT won in her life.
Anyway, what I took from that is that we have hundreds of thousands of these same kids in school/graduating who were never told no, always got a trophy and never lost anything that mattered.
Buckle up.
“Anyway, what I took from that is that we have hundreds of thousands of these same kids in school/graduating who were never told no, always got a trophy and never lost anything that mattered.”
And soon many will have jobs and run gov. God help us.