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Originally Posted by thaskalos
IMO...our kids today are more "stressed" because they are more disillusioned than we were at their age, about how hard life really is. We held part-time jobs during high school, because school loans were hard to come by...whereas our kids today have been spoiled by our preoccupation with not letting them do without the "youth lifestyle" that the media tells them they are entitled to.
Our kids today come out of college thinking that they've accomplished a great deal...without fully realizing that their struggle at this point of life is still at its beginning.
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It's a complex issue, with numerous causes and effects. And certainly, when a kid looks at their parent(s) and has been told their whole life that getting a college degree "punches their ticket", their expectations are way out of whack with reality.
Their struggle is now just beginning, but I'm of the opinion it's going to be harder, in some ways much harder, than it was for us. It's not just them adapting to a lower standard of living - humans can do that well, like back in the Great Depression. But there's going to be a lot of social upheaval along the way, and I doubt we'll get through it without some significant violence. Ten or twelve years ago, I thought I was old enough to avoid much of it, being in my mid 50s, but it's coming down the pike faster than I thought.
