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Jerry Rubin became a happy Reagan-era businessman, and was struck and killed by a car while jaywalking in heavy traffic in LA.
I had forgotten that...ahh, Karma.
Well, being hit by a car is a plausible karma for jaywalking on an 8-lane boulevard in LA, for anyone of any political persuasion; it doesn't prove anything either way :-).
A prophetic political moment occurred at Woodstock when stoned Abby Hoffman climbed on the stage in the middle of The Who set, and started giving a political speech, whereupon Pete Townshend smacked Abby on the head with the guitar, because the band wanted to effin' play their alotted set :-).
Boomers who were very liberal at that time tend to look bemusedly at the naive beliefs of their youth :-). I myself was more liberal than now (though never extremely liberal - I grew in a moderately-communist country, and always knew that private enterprise was the only enterprise, and communist rhetoric was garbage), but when I came to the US in 1983, I still thought that the "poor and oppressed" should be fairly given "better opportunities". But then I met a lot of these "poor and oppressed" Americans, and saw that they were given huge opportunities, but they by and large preferred to ignore all of those opportunities except straight handouts, and preferred to continue being forever obsessed with "oppression" that had ceased to exist long ago.
Most of the crap Millennials were getting 10-15 years ago, as they entered the workforce, was not unique to millennials. Every generation has to adapt to "the real world". And they did. The big difference is that they have had a higher barrier to entry to participate in the economy than previous generations, and have gotten less in return for their effort than previous generations, especially the Boomers.
Most of the crap they get today is petty (killing Applebees and enjoying Avocado toast, Oh, no!) and/or misplaced (actually regarding something associated with the younger generation after them, Gen Z).
It's no wonder Millennials have a bit of a chip on their shoulders.
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Excerpt:It's no wonder Millennial have a bit of a chip on their shoulders.
Response: makes up for all those soft under belly college years.
Most of the crap Millennials were getting 10-15 years ago, as they entered the workforce, was not unique to millennials. Every generation has to adapt to "the real world". And they did. The big difference is that they have had a higher barrier to entry to participate in the economy than previous generations, and have gotten less in return for their effort than previous generations, especially the Boomers.
Most of the crap they get today is petty (killing Applebees and enjoying Avocado toast, Oh, no!) and/or misplaced (actually regarding something associated with the younger generation after them, Gen Z).
It's no wonder Millennials have a bit of a chip on their shoulders.
Yea, they entered into a pretty terrible job market due to the recession and that was after having a college education being far more necessary for most decently earning jobs than for previous generations while at the same time having to contend with much more expensive college tuitions and housing expenses. The couple of generations before had an easier time financially.
Baby boomers Deplete all of the resources of most of the countries on the planet in a single generation, leaving absolutely nothing for future generations, pollute the planet to the point where some areas will become unable to support life and leave the clanup to future generations.
Export all of the industry and farming work overseas for short-term profit, destroying future generations’ chances of finding work and having a stable economy.
Destroy the educational and academic institutions in innumerable social and political experiments that cripple at least two generations.
Promote the kind of banking and economics that have put the most powerful country on Earth into the most debt ever seen in human history and cause massive economic recessions that affect the entire world.
Finally, create a social institution that redistributes wealth to your generation from your own children in outrageous retirement and pension funds designed to allow you to live in luxury and comfort while the world you have ruined melts down around you.
Baby boomers Deplete all of the resources of most of the countries on the planet in a single generation, leaving absolutely nothing for future generations, pollute the planet to the point where some areas will become unable to support life and leave the clanup to future generations.
Export all of the industry and farming work overseas for short-term profit, destroying future generations’ chances of finding work and having a stable economy.
Destroy the educational and academic institutions in innumerable social and political experiments that cripple at least two generations.
Promote the kind of banking and economics that have put the most powerful country on Earth into the most debt ever seen in human history and cause massive economic recessions that affect the entire world.
Finally, create a social institution that redistributes wealth to your generation from your own children in outrageous retirement and pension funds designed to allow you to live in luxury and comfort while the world you have ruined melts down around you.
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