> You’d have to go back a long time: the silent generation invested a lot in the public good from electrification to the GI Bill to roads to education and envir

> You’d have to go back a long time: the silent generation invested a lot in the public good from electrification to the GI Bill to roads to education and environmental protection. My parents were silent generation and I'm endlessly surprised how little adults of that generation understood about truly basic things, like psychology. To be fair, they generally parented a few hours a week. That wasn't much, not compared to the 24/7 adulting that was required of my generation (and is now the standard for every gen of parents). But... With our modern, unsustainable parenting requirements, birth rates are plummeting. More competence, fewer kids.