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What do you mean? This generation couldn't of done that?

 

I read this today and thought I would share. Not looking to start a fight, just an interesting perspective

This article was written by a 26 yr old college grad student working on her MBA. It's a short article and worth the read.

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about.
I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBooks, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me.
We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times.
Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow.
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
When I first read that statement I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college and let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, live through two World Wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem, we have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem. And it's spreading like a plague.

 

Unfortunately most of her peers will respond like this;



I’m back in college to burn my GI Bill, we recently argued capitalism vs socialism and it was scary. Most of the youth wants all these free programs, education and services but expect to pay less taxes or work part time only, all at the same time!

 

Mods, please don’t ban him for posting this.
It’s political, however, the environment of this thread does not disagree with it I believe.
Great post man.

 

Seconded!

 

I concur.

 

RIP

Good write-up

Edit to add: i just finished every page of this thread. Subbed.

 

I watched "they shall never grow old" highlighting soldiers of world war I and those guys were also tough! and a lot of them were barely 17, some even younger and got told by recruiters to say they were "18" when they were 15,16, or 17...Fighting in a "Mans" war.

 

When I was an FCC, we had a load make us some tri-tip sandwiches mid flight in a C17 full of Army pax. I felt bad, but the steak was so good that I soon forgot about them.

 

Better man then me. Can’t do any war movies anymore.

Same goes with Korea, the “forgotten” war. If you haven’t before, read about the battle at Chosen Reservoir. I can’t even imagine the horror of using your buddies dead frozen bodies for cover.

 

Palate cleanser

 

Nah, Im a simple man, not any better than anyone else. I just got lucky and didnt go to combat like some of you folks did. But yeah I agree they all endured some horrific things...went in boys--came out manly men.

 

I thought Saving Private Ryan was an incredible movie, and think it should be mandatory viewing.

I still have only seen it the one time. I was such an emotional wreck at the end of it I couldn’t handle it again.

Platoon was the same way, but I partially blame Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings (the saddest piece of music ever) for that.

 

FACTS;

Had one core class to do, others wouldn’t transfer and it was nothing but 17 and 18 year olds. Got home and switched it to an online course. That shit just felt weird.

 

sorry last one, did you see previews to this?