The boomers let things rot away. It won't be good for anyone until the various flaws in the system (minimum wage, cost of college, healthcare etc...) are fixed. I have a good amount of student debt I'm working through, and it's crazy to think that kids enrolling today are going to have it even worse, perhaps significantly so, in terms of cost. That can't last forever.
It can't, and we might have another bubble bursting for the Millennial generation: the idea that one may have to work may finally cause more social harm than good, due to automation.
Technology is going to change our whole society, and will absolutely take people out of the labor force. Getting an education is not only a net-negative against automation, but counting the student loan issue, they'll be even deeper in a hole that they can't ever realistically escape from.
We're in for a
massive series of growing pains, here. We have an almost insurmountable serious of problems that just by themselves seem mind-boggling. But we have so
many of those.
- Make health care something humane in America
- Fix the student loan crisis
- End poverty by ending the social inference of mandated labor (this creates poverty)
- Egalitarian rights for all people, not just those who are whiter or have more paper
- Allow a right to die (the amount of places that allow assisted suicide can be counted on just one pair of hands...)
- Deal with climate change
- End the problem of Big Money in every domain it's corroded
Look at
ANY of those, and you have such an enormous volume of people saying these things cannot be fixed because of how bad they've become..
The closest one I can see happening is a right to die, but the religious right will of course find a way to make this an issue, just like abortion and women's rights.