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You realize the article focuses on debt in regards to students and young people, right? Yeah, there's a bit of hyperbole, but I think my reference to "toughest.
by cbarnsdale 14y ago
You realize the article focuses on debt in regards to students and young people, right? Yeah, there's a bit of hyperbole, but I think my reference to "toughest... generation... evar..." makes sense in the context of "young people have it pretty shitty right now". Clearly you disagree, so fair enough. :)
- Millennium 14y agoAt the same time, this type of hyperbole makes it way too easy to dismiss arguments like these as whiny and lacking perspective. It's rhetorically unsound, and it doesn't do its side much in the way of favors.
- dkarl 14y agowhiny and lacking perspective Like everything else young people find persuasive? (That was whiny and hyperbolic, too, because young people like irony.)
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- dbecker 14y agoWe are one of the few generations that can expect to live past 50. According to Historian David McCullough, the functional literacy rate in 1900 was 11%. Sure, the article focus on students. But, by historical standards, you are extremely lucky TO BE ABLE to be a student into your early 20s. By historical standards, we are very privileged. This "toughest generation ever" bit is both naive and sad.