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I think this is half correct. Part of the reason they “don’t understand” it is because leaders in business and politics misuse the term to mean “back the fuck off and we’ll make things better.” It’s sort of a catchall diversionary term for deregulatory policies and Ameican exceptionalism, and I think millenials have a pretty valid reason to be critical of those things after getting the short end of the economic stick and entering one of the worst job markets since the 1930s.