bambamcam4ever
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I agree with the bolded, I have little doubt those sentiments have been common for generations. However, there was always an implicit promise in America, that parents would give their children a better future than they inherited. And that held up for close to two centuries, until the generation of people born after WWII, who were given every economic advantage possible, decided that they and they alone should be the recipients of the advantage they inherited.I am not disagreeing. Not entirely anyways.
Although just like thinking that America is the only place with stupid selfish people when it comes to C-19, the situation of older people voting, younger people not, and older people being selfish, also is a tale as old as time.
Other factors are going on, including a lot of young people wanting to live packed like sardines in coastal cities. I look in Pittsburgh and house prices are not ridiculously expensive at all. And just like in past times those who get educated or acquire skills in demand are getting paid very well.
The issues are for a limited segment. And is more because of the changes in the world, not because of those damn greedy rich, although that makes a better, and easier to use, story.
Just like when we went from an agrarian to an industrial based economy, those who insist on 'saving' their job on the farm were out of luck. Rightly so, they had to learn new skills. Unskilled labor is being replaced by robotics and AI, rapidly. It is not going back. Trying to 'save' those jobs is like fighting against the sun rising, impossible.
And you are accurate on your assessment of economic change. Due to advancements in technology, opportunity of jobs and entire regions will dwindle away. And short of state control of the economy, which I don't think anyone is advocating for, there is little that can be done. Of course, people will and should acquire new skills, but this takes time, and when you have machines who replace labor entirely, there will be an abundance of people who want to make money, but a shortage in employer demand for labor.
And I say this as an engineer who won't be harmed as this shift is taking place, but I recognize not everyone had the same advantages I did.