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I do think that much of the things drummed up about "generations" feeds into the distraction. If you can get boomers vilified and at the throats of millennials, if you can get Gen-X mostly ignored and sidelined, and Gen Z getting feds lots of complete dreck while telling them "you are a magical species who gets 'tech' like no other" and so on (while starting to rev up the propaganda to tell Gen alpha the exact same thing)....it's quite the sideshow from what is really happening, and that is that the upper crust like Elon and donvict are utterly lawless and making off with all the loot.
I think none of this is all that new - setting age groups against one another, setting up a war between male and females, the rural against the metropolitan, the various strata of classes that range from extreme poverty to the middle class (that still desperately needs a job to keep their head above water) and of course the old standby: setting the races against one another.
This is age-old stuff, but the techniques have been sharpened and perfected like never before. And the qons work extra hard to make sure that education won't rise to meet the challenge.
We've been ready for that since we realized that our parents were never going to retire soon enough for us to have access to the "good jobs". We went to school and majored in "whatever was available", and then the generation that graduated after us coincided with our parents retiring and freed up the good jobs for them.
"Ignored and Sidelined" pretty much sums up my generation. If we didn't have computers, weed, and grunge, we'd have nothing.
You think millennials had good jobs out of college? Ever heard of 2008?
2008 wasn't the fault of bad jobs. It was the fault of overly greedy banks offering sub-prime mortgages to people would otherwise never qualify for home ownership, and then crying for a bailout when those new homeowners (unsurprisingly) defaulted.
I never said it was the fault of bad jobs. I'm saying the result was about a decade of no (good) jobs.