Moody Monday: why young people are so disillusioned

[mellowtigger]

I've spent more than a decade saying how bad the economic trends are. I won't bore you with the details again. Instead, here are just 2 things to consider:

1) This chart shows how much wealth each generation had at the same point in their own lives. You can see how much poorer we're getting. The Republican (plus Democrat complicity) effort to consolidate wealth has succeeded beyond imagining. We should replace the entire national congress with people half my age.  Yes, there's a problem with septuagenarians running our nation, because they're operating on a belief that no longer holds true thanks to their own efforts.  Mixing two old metaphors: They've eaten our seed corn to get themselves fat.  That familiar "eat the rich" slogan could just as easily be "eat the old".  Each generation is poorer than the one before it.  Amurrica!

2) So you can forgive the young people for their disillusionment with the traditional rat race. Generation Z is in the workforce now, and they've seen the systems that we've left them.  They will NOT get richer by working harder in the treadmill. They know it, and they know the system-destroying trends at work in their world.  Of course, they are worried.  They should be.  "Busy work is exhausting, especially when the stakes are this high."

(Sorry, apparently TikTok embed code doesn't work on Dreamwidth.  *sigh*  The 1-minute video link is here.) 

Reminder: The beginning is near.