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by scottLobster 1535 days ago
Well in this case the young people in question have, on a generational level, inherited worse circumstances than their parents. That hasn't been seen in the Western World since pre-WWII.

I'm not saying millennials will figure everything out, but there's no denying the shift in values. It's not some idealistic cultural awakening, just a harsher reality forcing adaptation. In the long run we'll probably ameliorate climate change and screw a bunch of other things up.
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vorpalhex 1535 days ago
> the young people in question have, on a generational level, inherited worse circumstances than their parents.

If only we could go back to when life was perfect, like.. uh.. the 1950s.. wait no, things were better in the 1970s! I mean, not really since we had massive inflation and gas shortages.. uh, what about the 90s when crime spiked?

What mythical year was this where life was better than today?

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scottLobster 1535 days ago
Oh I don't know, that large swath of decades where housing was cheap relative to the last 10 years, a high school education could get a job that afforded a middle class existence and education could be paid for with a part time job? Hell for part of that period wages even grew with productivity, what luxury! Sure some things are better today, but the cost of the necessities of life are through the roof relative to wage growth.

Back in the 70s my dad worked his ass off between classes and jobs to pay his own way through his PhD, and owned a small house off his stipend/odd jobs and my mom's salary as a public school teacher, in a decent area of California no less. Even he's admitted that would be simply impossible today.

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yucky 1535 days ago
>Well in this case the young people in question have, on a generational level, inherited worse circumstances than their parents.

At no point in history has the world been less violent and more accommodating for marginalized people. Or are you implying that is the problem?

Otherwise, I suspect you're just alluding to the high housing prices caused by every young person wanting to move to the same 5 cities and driving up prices? I mean, the US is big and housing is cheap in plenty of places. Starter homes used to be a thing.

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