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| Millennials Are The Most Prosperous Generation That's Ever Lived |
| 2019-03-23 |
| [The Federalist] Why do millennials like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez embrace the most disastrous economic philosophy of the 20th century? Because millennials have suffered more than the generations that have come before them. At least this is the takeaway of the author of a new fawning cover story of the socialist congresswoman in Time magazine. ".@AOC and I were born the same year. She was a Dunkaroos kid‐I liked fruit roll-ups," Time reporter Charlotte Alter tweeted. "People our age have never experienced American prosperity in our adult lives‐which is why so many millennials are embracing Democratic socialism" (emphasis mine). Alter also claims that Ocasio-Cortez’s "adulthood was defined by financial crisis, debt & climate change. No wonder she and her peers are moving left." The idea that millennials have toiled in uniquely grueling economic conditions exhibits a delusional and extraordinarily narrow understanding of history. Whether the majority of millennials believes this myth or not, I don’t know. I tend to doubt it. Alter is just repeating AOC’s contention. But, historically speaking, the only thing millennials have seen is relative prosperity, most of it provided by free markets and American political stability. Although every generation has its struggles, if the world continues on its present trajectory, American millennials will have collectively lived the most peaceful, wealthiest, safest, most educated, and most globally connected lives in the history of the world. For starters, millennials had the world opened to them like no one else, benefiting from the perhaps greatest technological revolution in information and commerce‐even more consequential than the printing revolution. As one clever tweeter noted, Alter "typed ’never experienced American prosperity’ on her new MacBook and sent it to her employer on her high speed internet then tweeted the story from a new iPhone X while sipping a latte from an avocado." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Possibly because those living with their parents don't pay rent. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-03-23 12:37 |
| #5 Wait until they find out people with disposable cash and no impulse control are easy marks. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-03-23 12:07 |
| #4 If you know your history, you'd know that Rome wasn't on a downward spiral when the civil wars erupted in the republic. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-03-23 11:51 |
| #3 Because millennials have suffered more than the generations that have come before them. More than African - Americans? Shame! Racism! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-03-23 09:53 |
| #2 Sorry but the title is not true. Average Land prices are 10 times average earnings they used to be 2.5. Millennials are the most debt loaded generation, but that's not prosperity. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-03-23 08:17 |
| #1 Like the mindset of pro players living in a nation where they are payed millions yet refuse to stand for the flag. |
| Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-03-23 08:04 |