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While failures are often worth celebrating (don't fear failure, learn from your mistakes, etc) there's a line there somewhere where this type of "toast to the r
by abider 5y ago
While failures are often worth celebrating (don't fear failure, learn from your mistakes, etc) there's a line there somewhere where this type of "toast to the rejects" can cross over into something else. Sour grapes? "I didn't want that stupid grant anyway!"
- Flankk 5y agoFailure is a loaded word. It should be expected that you don't achieve your desired outcome with many things in life. The real problem is a generation of people have been raised to be entitled.
- simonhamp 5y agoWell, the _real_ problem isn't just that they've been raised in a way that leads to entitlement, but that what they have been taught to feel entitled to was actually a pipe dream. While the boomers were all busy buying property and starting businesses, they were also unwittingly making it impossible for their descendants to do the same (or to the same extent) whilst in the same breath telling them (perhaps in honest belief) that they too could have anything they wanted. Setting the bar so high makes even slight failures hit that much harder.
- Flankk 5y agoHow did boomers make it impossible to do the same? Real estate is unaffordable, boomers refuse to retire, they had a better economy. That's my understanding of the zeitgeist. What did I miss?