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> Subject: FW: We have no contrast
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> It is remarkable once you think about it that we don’t consider this prosperity. I
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> think the problem is that we are always comparing to people who have more as
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> opposed to those who have less especially around the rest of the world.
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> Envy , one of the 7 Capital sins.
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> This article was written by Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in graduate school for her
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> MBA. Definitely worth a read.
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> “My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us. I’m sitting in a small coffee
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> shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my news feed
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> on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies
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> to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look
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> around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an
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> instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged
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> time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it.
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> Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.
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> These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought.
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> We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the
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> global average. Thirty-One Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global
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> standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at
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> our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.Our unappreciation
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> is evident the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial
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> generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America,
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> came of age and never saw American prosperity.” Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
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> When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and
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> factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree
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> with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream
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> narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college,
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> let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.Why then, with all of the overwhelming
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> evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this
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> as prosperity?
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> We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly
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> impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a
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> result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
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> Why?
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> The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live
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> in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or see
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> the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like to live without
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> the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem.
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> We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague."
