MasterBlaster
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I see a lot of this too. I guess it's pretty obvious that a combination of demographic and economic trends are coming together to ensure that today's younger generation gets a raw deal (on average) compared to their parents and grandparents. The question to me becomes: is there anything we can reasonably do about it? Youth today have much higher poverty rates than the elderly, but our economic and social policies continue to transfer wealth from young to old (in many cases, regardless of means or income). How much longer will the younger generations put up with the status quo?
That's the whole "Clash of Generations" in a nutshell. Is the present system really sustainable ? Is it fair ? Will it survive once the younguns' figure out what's What ?