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Old 02-03-2022, 02:54 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by thinkxingu View Post
Before we go on condemning today's youth for being entitled, lazy, etc. I would like to get two things clear:

1. Whatever today's youth is is a reflection of the parenting and culture before them.

2. The ability to achieve what our parents and grandparents did is just simply not the same. Anyone who says so is either ignorant or being willfully ignorant.

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Agreed. Staying away from my own biased stories--the two gigantic differences are the prices of education and real estate in inflation adjusted dollars. Wages have not kept up with either, and this creates a dramatically different landscape for 20-30 somethings today than we faced 20-50 years ago
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