Social media is full of complainers.
Everything is unfair, billionaires have it all and won’t give us some. The system is against us. Opportunity is gone. The stuff I want should be free. We are paid too little.
Woe is me
I see this sentiment everyday. It seems especially common on Threads. Younger Americans need a better understanding of history.
Would you repeat the 20th century in favor of the first quarter of the 21st?
QUINNSCOMMENTARY 
Since I was around for more than half the 20th century and so far all of this one, I can’t answer your question. I’m too locked into both.
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This comment applies to this article and the previous one posted by Mr. Quinn. The conditioning to spend and spend or charge on credit cards for the “good” life now comes from the social media and staged reality TV shows that feature the good life by participants. Flying to distant exotic places, spending money on fancy new cars or boats or other leisure activities now are the dominant themes. Young adults whose brains are not fully developed are especially susceptible to these themes. Don’t expect “responsible” financial behavior by a lot of adults. It’s just what it is!
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No I would not rather go back to living in the previous century. There has never been a better time and place to be born than today in the USA. Opportunity abounds for anyone who chooses to pursue it.
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well I wonder what young people are being taught in school?
didn’t Covid expose millions of parents to what was going on in classrooms–social justice–the 1619 Project malarkey– gender affirmation–you would hear about this being taught in History classes–Chemistry classes–Algebra classes— folks can’t read or do math but we have them fulfilling someone’s social and political agenda.
Free stuff??? like taking out a loan and then have it transferred to working folks? if you go to the polls and vote for the clowns who gave us this then don’t don’t act surprised that they expect this down the road for all sorts of things.
if paid too little ask yourself why $20 an hour is mandated in CA for fast food workers–I guess some folks can assuage their white guilt–now that one chain has shut down in CA–others are reducing worker hours and the WSJ article about more and more robots in fast food chains , we can see how the lack of education works it way through the system—only an ignoramus would fail to see that mandating $20 an hour has the long-term effect of increasing the unemployment rate in the industry—time will tell!
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