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In reply to the discussion: Maher's Mask Slips: Punching Down While the Republic Burns [View all]Johnny2X2X
(23,670 posts)And his generation, the Boomers, destroyed the country and each generation since has had it harder.
It's pure fantasy to think Millenials and Gen Z have it easy and aren't tough. They have it harder than my Generation, Gen X, by a long shot.
Gen Z will never know affordable housing and health care. Tehy'll never live in a world where every single mistake they've ever made is broadcast and permanetly recorded on social media. They don't know a world where if you didn't want to or couldn't attend college, there were good paying factory jobs with great health benefits and pensions.
I see it among my peers and friends as Gen Xers. These people act like they were all super serious scholars who walked the straight and narrow through high school and college. They must have went to different schools than I did, because in the 90s when I was in college, people kind of skated through for the most part.
Young people today cannot afford to skate through anything. They drink less, they do less drugs, they have less sex, and they are generally more anxious and less happy. They know that they must work hard to graduate or they don't have any chance at all to maintain the standard of living their parents did.
Bill Maher is an out of touch fool.