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I don't know anyone who's slaving away with the expectation of retiring to a permanent vacation. No offence, this is probably because you are generation Y, wel
by run4yourlives 16y ago
I don't know anyone who's slaving away with the expectation of retiring to a permanent vacation.
No offence, this is probably because you are generation Y, well educated and surrounded by start-up mentality or in college.
Consider yourself lucky, but don't consider yourself the norm (yet at least).
- roc 16y agoI never claimed my experiences were normal. I just questioned how widespread belief in the Boomers' retirement myth could be in the rest of the populace, if I'd never so much as met a believer. (I didn't mean to suggest Boomers who were 5 years out didn't believe or weren't still banking on the myth. I was talking about the younger generations.[1]) My circles do contain a disproportionate number of creatives and the self-employed/start-up types - but you're off by a generation. And maybe half have degrees; if that. The biggest de-normative aspect is surely that my family/friends/colleagues are all in and around Detroit: where high unemployment and essentially no economic growth has been normal for a decade. [1] You know the boomers sure complain a lot about the 'attitude of entitlement' among the younger generations. But who was it that actually mortgaged our future for their present?
- run4yourlives 16y agoI'm not even going to attempt to argue anything in favour of the boomers. As a gen X that's against my DNA and I fear I may spontaneously combust if I entertain such thoughts. The point is this however: the boomers are the norm. By literal definition. We (that's you and me both) are not, and we wont be for a while.