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NM Politics.net - by Michael Swickard, Ph.D. - At a fast food style restaurant, I had a nodding relationship with the young fellow behind the counter. We would each say, “Howdy.” Last week he ventured an observation, “You sure were lucky to be young when it was still possible to become wealthy.” He said it like, “Nice weather… how about those Aggies… whatcha want?” I was startled by the notion that I grew up in a better time. Truth is, I only went to school because I was physically placed on a school bus with instructions to not hit anyone. For the record, I only hit back, but the second kid is usually the one caught, so I was typecast. I was also typecast as a kid who could not wait to get away from school. This they got right. I was born in 1950, and this fellow behind the counter was born in 1990. Without a doubt they were different societies. In school I practiced the “Atomic bomb attack drill,” while he has to worry about getting a bad case of “Texting thumb.”
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Now is the best time ever for young workers
From NM Politics.net - by Michael Swickard, Ph.D. - At a fast food style restaurant, I had a nodding relationship with the young fellow behind the counter. We would each say, “Howdy.” Last week he ventured an observation, “You sure were lucky to be young when it was still possible to become wealthy.” He said it like, “Nice weather… how about those Aggies… whatcha want?” I was startled by the notion that I grew up in a better time. Truth is, I only went to school because I was physically placed on a school bus with instructions to not hit anyone. For the record, I only hit back, but the second kid is usually the one caught, so I was typecast. I was also typecast as a kid who could not wait to get away from school. This they got right. I was born in 1950, and this fellow behind the counter was born in 1990. Without a doubt they were different societies. In school I practiced the “Atomic bomb attack drill,” while he has to worry about getting a bad case of “Texting thumb.” Read more
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Wow. Never let facts get in the way of an insipid story. Unemployment has hit young people harder than the general population (we're talking double-digits), which greatly reduces young peoples' earning potentials over their entire lifetime. But, hey, if you say this is the best time to be a young person then the nationwide statistics must have just forgotten to ask you.
Furthermore, your sarcastic comparison of "texting thumb" with "Atomic bomb attack drill" is both condescending and ignorant. Is "texting thumb" really the only thing young people need to worry about these days? What about terrorist attacks? Nuclear attacks (yeah, they're still out there)? School shootings? Climate collapse (I know you don't believe in science, but science believes in you)? Being allowed to be assaulted by authority figures while everyone who should stand up for you looks the other way? But I suppose those realities don't fit in your pat little narrative.
What I'm not sure about is whether you're too full of yourself to consider the situation from other vantage points or whether you intentionally misrepresent the world, a la your radio idol Glenn Beck.
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