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I think they would say that their future prospects are a lot dimmer than yours were, precisely because boomers have strip-mined civilization for their own benef
by ryanwaggoner 6y ago
I think they would say that their future prospects are a lot dimmer than yours were, precisely because boomers have strip-mined civilization for their own benefit and left your kids' generation holding the bag.
At 37, I'm among the oldest of the millennials and I don't entirely agree with that assessment, but I think that's what they'd say.
- irrational 6y agoThat doesn't explain teenagers. My teens and their friends are not aware of that sort of things at all. That is more of a college-student mentality.
- danharaj 6y agoTeenagers are sensitive to the cognitive dissonance that accompanies learning how society works and their place in it, even if they're not yet able to articulate those feelings. Some are more precocious than others but anything a college student would be able to tell you about their relationship to society was developing for years beforehand.
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- quacked 6y agoI agree with you; however, the interesting thing is that instead of millenials asking boomers why they've gone and strip mined everything, the millenials are mad that there's nothing left to strip mine.