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it's like seeing the same situation in all developing nations but not as bad as Saudi Arabia. We no longer have any guarantees that our parents had. We no long

it's like seeing the same situation in all developing nations but not as bad as Saudi Arabia. We no longer have any guarantees that our parents had. We no longer have the resources or lack of debt from our previous generation of careless expenditure. In lot of ways millenials are fucked, but looks like more so for countries that put all their eggs in one basket.

mathgeek 11y ago
> In lot of ways millenials are fucked I often wonder just how bad the current generations will have it when compared to other recent generations. Will it be worse than those generations who lost so many and so much to WWI and WWII? Hard to tell except eventually in retrospect, but interesting to ponder.
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WhoBeI 11y ago
“It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.”
- dcroley 11y ago
  Read in John Cleese's voice.
HillRat 11y ago
There's a modern Sa'udi proverb that I think sums up their situation: "My father rode a camel; I drive a car; my son flies an airplane; my grandson will ride a camel." Nobody can match a Gulf Arab for sheer fatalism.
- gaelian 11y ago
  Sounds like a commandeered/re-jigged version of a quote attributed to Râshid bin Sa`îd Âl Makṫûm[1]: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel." So it would appear that amongst their other concerns, the Saudis also need to start producing their own fatalistic proverbs, rather than importing them from Dubai. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum
tim333 11y ago
>We no longer have any guarantees that our parents had My dad had to leave Germany where he was born to escape the nazis. The past wasn't all that great. On the other hand the millennials may have the singularity coming which I think will be quite a cool, once in history, thing to witness.

mathgeek 11y ago

> In lot of ways millenials are fucked I often wonder just how bad the current generations will have it when compared to other recent generations. Will it be worse than those generations who lost so many and so much to WWI and WWII? Hard to tell except eventually in retrospect, but interesting to ponder.

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WhoBeI 11y ago

“It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.”

dcroley 11y ago
Read in John Cleese's voice.

HillRat 11y ago

There's a modern Sa'udi proverb that I think sums up their situation: "My father rode a camel; I drive a car; my son flies an airplane; my grandson will ride a camel." Nobody can match a Gulf Arab for sheer fatalism.

gaelian 11y ago
Sounds like a commandeered/re-jigged version of a quote attributed to Râshid bin Sa`îd Âl Makṫûm[1]: "My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel." So it would appear that amongst their other concerns, the Saudis also need to start producing their own fatalistic proverbs, rather than importing them from Dubai. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum

tim333 11y ago

>We no longer have any guarantees that our parents had My dad had to leave Germany where he was born to escape the nazis. The past wasn't all that great. On the other hand the millennials may have the singularity coming which I think will be quite a cool, once in history, thing to witness.