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Originally Posted by TheNovaScotian
I spoke to a few lazy entitled young people afterwards. It was the same reason a few friends of mine couldn't show up. They were too tired from working 2 or 3 jobs and can't spare the time. They're thinking was that the elected officials would be able to do their job and read reports about shadow studies, which  Clouncillor Smith decided conveniently not to do.
What I can tell you with certainty is the rude comments I heard were from older people and there was no shortage of scoffs and mob mentality. You could tell older people knew they were in the majority in the room, the only respite was knowing that fact wouldn't hold true for long. You can call it agist and it is. I have a great disdain for the Boomer generation, they have been sacrificing the generations after it since day one. Nations rarely ran massive debts before they became a majority voting block in industrialized nations. So self important Boomers decided it was smart to mortgage the future for the present gains with no idea how to pay any of it back.....Feeling almost "entitled" to it?
This lazy entitled younger generation will be paying the bills so you can retire the most opulent generation in human history so that same respect you expect, try offering it. Themselves not having a good chance at the same living through constant calls for austerity to pay your debts. This world will be a better place in 20-30 years due to the disappearance of the worst decision making generation our species has produced yet. I have parents and grand parents I'm not a monster, I love them but that doesn't change the huge debts left to pay after they are gone. Some of us have to still struggle for a better tomorrow and the day after that and so on, catch my drift?  |
Ha ha... well said!
Obviously when one uses negative descriptors to generalize an entire demographic (i.e. lazy, entitled), it stirs up emotions in those who feel they don't fit into that generalization, or even moreso when they don't feel it's true for the majority of that demographic, nor fair to be judged in that light.
My original point proven. Thanks!
And yes, I agree with much of what you are saying, but I feel it the situation is much more complex than you and the majority of the population think that it is.
Just wait and see what the next generation says about your generation... all the things that you should have been doing when it wasn't necessarily obvious to you at the time. And all the struggles that they are faced with will be your fault. Hindsight is always 20/20, and I hope you get to benefit from it when you become old someday. Read up on some world history - this sentiment isn't unique to our time, nor will it ever be as long as humans populate the planet.
Have a great evening, all. It's been fun!
