Trixter - Male - Georgia

May 19, 2022 4:27 pm

What a great perspective and well worth the read ..... This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa, who's in grad school for her MBA. “My Generation Is Blind to the P... View MoreWhat a great perspective and well worth the read ..... This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa, who's in grad school for her MBA. “My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's and ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me; we live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous Nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful? Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of Socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity?? Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I disagree. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country! People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity and, as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing Capitalism!! Why? The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast! We didn't live in the great depression or live through two World Wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War and we didn't see the rise and fall of Socialism and Communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

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JanetMcS

That was a good read, yes indeed they have an entitlement & Ungrateful problem...We have had to work for everything we had, nothing was handed to Us, but we are the better people that this country now does NOT care about! Sad....Very Sad!!

May 19, 2022

Paddypat

She is 100% correct. I’ve traveled the world for 32 years for work, going to a lot of second, and third world countries. I believe this should be required for all students. I watched Venezuela go from being an up and coming, 3rd richest country in the world to the shithole it is now. In 32 years, I ... View More

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Larrydodson10

Wow, Alyssa totally understands how truly prosperous a nation we are while recognizing the dark side of the Dept of Education hell bent on destroying a system that had given its citizens the opportunity to persue, as well as achieve, a life outstanding.