This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach
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This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach
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#2Or to put it succinctly: The Greatest Generation has given way to The Laziest Generation.
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#3Or to put it succinctly: The Greatest Generation has given way to The Laziest Generation.
I assume by greatest generation you mean baby boomers. The article doesn't OP doesn't refer to them as the greatest generation. And by given way, I think you mean enabled, because the OP is making the point that Scotts parents have paid his whole way and still pay for him while he declines job offers.
I have issue with calling the baby boomers the greatest generation. They've saddled this country with an unimaginable debt burdon, creating a situation where their kids may be the first American generation who's quality of life may not exceed that of their parents, yet the baby boomers call their kids lazy for not wanting to pick up the tab and pay for their extravagances.
However, Scott from the OP is still a lazy sack of ...
Re: This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach
#4Or to put it succinctly: The Greatest Generation has given way to The Laziest Generation.
I assume by greatest generation you mean baby boomers. The article doesn't OP doesn't refer to them as the greatest generation. And by given way, I think you mean enabled, because the OP is making the point that Scotts parents have paid his whole way and still pay for him while he declines job offers. I have issue with calling the baby boomers the greatest generation. They've saddled this country with an unimaginable…
"The Greatest Generation" refers to the parents of the baby boomers.
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#5Great story. Parents encourage son to beat head against the closed doors of corporate america instead of encouraging him to becoming an entrepreneur.
The author's conclusion:
"I'm not here offering a solution for the 45 year old guy with three kids. I am offering encouragement to a crop of college kids infantilized by terrible advice from parents and TV who have the freedom and opportunity to try something; while simultaneously describing the only long term solution to America's economic problems: more businesses. Jobs programs and stimulus packages are debatably good or bad, but assuredly temporary. Remember "the children are or future?" How about encouraging them a little? Maybe someday they'll pay for your social security."
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#6Great story. Parents encourage son to beat head against the closed doors of corporate america instead of encouraging him to becoming an entrepreneur. The author's conclusion: "I'm not here offering a solution for the 45 year old guy with three kids. I am offering encouragement to a crop of college kids infantilized by terrible advice from parents and TV who have the freedom and opportunity to try something; while sim…
um not quite so black & white. Scott isn't trying to become an entrepreneur right now...he's not doing shit. He either needs to get a job (40k whatever, it pays the bills) or start a damn company.
edit: Or as one commenter said, get a corp job to save some $$$ while you work on something else on the side.
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#7This can be summed up to the following "Be proactive, happen to life or life won't happen to you" .
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#8Gotta love how he's described as having "absolutely no chance of STDs".
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume by greatest generation you mean baby boomers. The article doesn't OP doesn't refer to them as the greatest generation. And by given way, I think you mean enabled, because the OP is making the point that Scotts parents have paid his whole way and still pay for him while he declines job offers. I have issue with calling the baby boomers the greatest generation. They've saddled this country with an unimaginable…
"The Greatest Generation" refers to the parents of the baby boomers.
The open question is if gen-Y will be even worse than the baby boomers. I don't think they can be, if only due to numbers.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume by greatest generation you mean baby boomers. The article doesn't OP doesn't refer to them as the greatest generation. And by given way, I think you mean enabled, because the OP is making the point that Scotts parents have paid his whole way and still pay for him while he declines job offers. I have issue with calling the baby boomers the greatest generation. They've saddled this country with an unimaginable…
"The Greatest Generation" refers to the parents of the baby boomers.
They don't get off Scot free either. Here in England they voted in the Nanny State in '45 and we've been paying for it ever since.
Did you know in '48 they claimed the cost of nationalized healthcare would go down in time as the population got healthier...?