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This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren who's in grad school for her MBA. It's a short article but definitely worth a read.


My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!


I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about.


I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic 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 MacBooks, 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.


Democratic 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 digress.


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, elect politicians 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 or 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 lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
 

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It goes back to all those kids that grew up without electric steak knives and automatic car door openers.
You give a kid a remote controlled TV instead of the old three channeled manual dial and the results should be predictable. He won't get enough exercise to know what it was like on the Bataan Death March.
 

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It goes back to all those kids that grew up without electric steak knives and automatic car door openers.
You give a kid a remote controlled TV instead of the old three channeled manual dial and the results should be predictable. He won't get enough exercise to know what it was like on the Bataan Death March.


They’re too leveraged on 2010s student loan rates to afford steak knives, car payments, and satellite Tv. It’s not the 60s and 70s costs of living any longer.
 

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Her comments were mature and well balanced. I wish more American could visualize their surroundings like she does!
Too many young adults as well as some int here sixties have an entitlement personality and will vote Democrat simply because of the empty promises. Anyone who believes that there is going to be $1,000 per month stipends to families, free education and forgiveness of student loans have their heads in the sand and need to return to school for. basic 101 economics course. Where exactly are the politicians going to get that money? They cry from corporations and the rich-what is going to happen when they run low on money? They're going to turn to the middle class and break them until there are two calluses of people-the rich and the poor. But Heaven help them if someone suggests that congressmen and women surrender some of their wealth. Even Bernie said he wouldn't do that!
 

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It goes back to all those kids that grew up without electric steak knives and automatic car door openers.
You give a kid a remote controlled TV instead of the old three channeled manual dial and the results should be predictable. He won't get enough exercise to know what it was like on the Bataan Death March.
My kids were my remote!
 

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I went to the OU career fair last week to do some recruiting for work. I got a chance to talk with some of the petroleum engineering students. It's easy to rag on younger generations and all but I'm here to tell you some in that group definitely have their $#it together.
I agree 100%.
A short 4 years ago (or was it 5? What month is this? I'm retired and don't need to remember) before I retired from the Power Plant, we had a mass exodus of senior employees in the control systems and instrumentation field that I worked in due to a new group being formed. We hired a crap ton of new engineers and technically trained with Associates degrees from Okmulgee Tech right out of school. Every single one of them had a desire to work and great work ethics.
They got my respect.
We don't hear about them in the media though. All we hear and read about are the malcontents that insist on the free stuff that is the base for the dimocratic party now.
 

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