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> Which do you think are just products of the media? A lot of them. The '08 recession happened when most teenagers were in elementary school. The economy has
by Manuel_D 5y ago
> Which do you think are just products of the media?
A lot of them.
The '08 recession happened when most teenagers were in elementary school. The economy has thoroughly recovered the last several years leading up to COVID.
Mountains of debt after graduating, is only an issue if you plan to go to college. A lot more teenagers are realizing the scam and predation that a university education is unless you've got a serious shot trying to be a doctor or a lawyer. Trades will perform better on average than most non professional fields.
Climate becoming unlivable (for Americans, important caveat). Estimates for climate refugees are ~200 million over the next century even in pessimistic cases, and few of those would be among Americans. The bulk are concentrated in arid or equatorial countries. Which, to be clear, is a massive injustice since those countries are bearing the biggest brunt of climate change while other countries reaped most of the rewards of fossil fuels. But the idea large swaths if the American population is living somewhere that will become unlivable in the next few decades is misinformation.
- adrianN 5y agoWhat do you think where those 200 million will flee to? Certainly not other arid or equatorial countries.
- Manuel_D 5y agoNow that's moving the goalposts from the notion that Americans should be worried that their own home will become inhospitable, and that it will happen to some other region. Remember, this document is about American teens. And regardless, no, that shouldn't be cause for dread either. Those 200 million estimated refugees are spread out both geographically across the globe and across a century time-wise. There's 45 million immigrants living in the US currently. Even if half come to the US, it's hardly an apocalyptic levels of immigration.
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- adrianN 5y agoI'm concerned because I remember what a relatively low number of refugees did to European politics over the last couple of years.
- ben_w 5y agoI am not sure of the causal relationship. Did the refugees cause the politics, or were they used by politicians seeking a convenient non-voting Other they could demonise relatively safely? I recognise my still-limited grasp of the German langue prevents me looking too closely at the politics of Germany, but I never had an impression since moving here that even a million caused significant real issues.