Let's not scapegoat illegal immigrants here. They're not working at Subway. Subway closed because they lost sight of what consumers were looking for. Diversity requirements are about giving opportunities to people who are not like you. The opportunities you're lamenting here are not entitlements or birth rights. This is the future that Zoomers have to face: scarcity caused by our generations will make everything more competitive for each successive generation. You're right though, the problem is in leadership. Right now we're telling them they should expect easy employment, a properous economy and class mobility and most of this generation won't see any of those things. Meanwhile, we're creating business models that funnel money away from them to the current generation's management class who are spending beyond their means and leaving little resources in their wake. The take is right here, but the causes are not social, they're systematic and come from what we usually consider "good" in other social groups.
Not a great piece. The audience is Boomers so as an elder I need to elaborate on its phenomena:
It is no longer honest to claim that working harder is a competitive advantage. It’s never been smart to promote the hardest worker, but one difference now is that non-remunerative work is punished. Raising kids, taking care of parents; those are unwise during your peak productive years. Don’t be the hardest worker and don’t overvalue non-remunerative work.
The west has lost its definitions of liberal and conservative. Conservative used to mean: noticing that radical change results in a net negative, historically. I’m conservative in the USA and there’s no realistic political party for that anymore. Ideas for better-balanced rights are liberal by the 18th century definition. Defying that only the aristocracy should carry guns was and is liberal.
Christianity seems to have peaked mid-20th century. The obligation to subdue the most-harmful effects on the poor is now very baroque. I’ve met people who watch a TV church weekly, unable to hold the simplest of conversations about 90% of the word of Christ.
Boomers had extraordinary economics, and it shows in some of your leaders’ personalities. Gen-X and Zoomer leaders will be tougher.
Let's not scapegoat illegal immigrants here. They're not working at Subway. Subway closed because they lost sight of what consumers were looking for. Diversity requirements are about giving opportunities to people who are not like you. The opportunities you're lamenting here are not entitlements or birth rights. This is the future that Zoomers have to face: scarcity caused by our generations will make everything more competitive for each successive generation. You're right though, the problem is in leadership. Right now we're telling them they should expect easy employment, a properous economy and class mobility and most of this generation won't see any of those things. Meanwhile, we're creating business models that funnel money away from them to the current generation's management class who are spending beyond their means and leaving little resources in their wake. The take is right here, but the causes are not social, they're systematic and come from what we usually consider "good" in other social groups.
Not a great piece. The audience is Boomers so as an elder I need to elaborate on its phenomena:
It is no longer honest to claim that working harder is a competitive advantage. It’s never been smart to promote the hardest worker, but one difference now is that non-remunerative work is punished. Raising kids, taking care of parents; those are unwise during your peak productive years. Don’t be the hardest worker and don’t overvalue non-remunerative work.
The west has lost its definitions of liberal and conservative. Conservative used to mean: noticing that radical change results in a net negative, historically. I’m conservative in the USA and there’s no realistic political party for that anymore. Ideas for better-balanced rights are liberal by the 18th century definition. Defying that only the aristocracy should carry guns was and is liberal.
Christianity seems to have peaked mid-20th century. The obligation to subdue the most-harmful effects on the poor is now very baroque. I’ve met people who watch a TV church weekly, unable to hold the simplest of conversations about 90% of the word of Christ.
Boomers had extraordinary economics, and it shows in some of your leaders’ personalities. Gen-X and Zoomer leaders will be tougher.