re: #157 HappyWarrior

Speaking as a Millnennial, I think what it is for us, we see Capitalism painted as this awesome system and so much superior to awful, yucky Socialism and we’re just not falling for it. I forget woh said it here, hell may have been you yourself but Capitalism is great for innovation but when it comes to basic needs, it does lack. And frankly when we’re told that we do nothing but complain when we have a tough time finding work by people who had to pay much less for college, got paid much better out of college, etc, yeah it annoys us. I don’t identify myself as a Socialist but I sure as hell don’t like the Capitalist worship that many fall into either.

Way too many of my fellow Boomers refuse to understand just how lucky we were, compared to those who came before and after. They rattle on about how they worked their way through college, which turns out to have been pushing the Idiot Stick for a few hours a week while attending a State School which then was damn near free, but now costs 40% or more of median wage.

Me? I got kicked out of graduate school. A little over a year later, I took a job that paid the equivalent of $50,000 today, on the basis of, really, ONE YEAR of experience in a lab, because Biotech was still in its infancy, and they needed hands.

I KNOW how lucky I was. But too many of my generation think that’s how it is today.