There are undeniable things that are more difficult for those kids nowadays. In the 1960s, 70s, and even up through the 80s a person could put himself through an elite college by working. That’s impossible now at lots of places. You’re not going to get a job that will allow you to pay $75k a year in tuition.
It’s criminal what we as a country have done to these kids. College tuition is out of control purely because of government spending and government interference in the market place because of student loans. And basically every other problem has its roots in government.
They know something is wrong. But they lack the tools to correctly diagnose it. They see the old films of how things were clean and they can watch 80s movies where Southern California was an overwhelmingly white suburban paradise and so on and so forth. They know things are different but they’ve been so indoctrinated they can’t correctly see why.
And it’s easy for boomers to make fun of them but the kids weren’t in charge of the things that made college ruinously expensive or their world trashy ass jungle full of illegals and other foreigners.
If the point is that the country has gone to schit and boomers were the one in charge when it did, it’s pretty hard to deny.
Horse puckey.
1). You don’t NEED to go to an elite college to have a successful career. Many states have FREE junior college educations, finish up your two last years at a state school (average tuition 14K), go to grad school for a science degree on an assistantship: presto! ZERO student loans and great career opportunities.
The disservice Boomers have cursed their offspring with is the notion that you have to go to a “good” college to be able to succeed, and you should do anything, pay anything when you get the chance to get in. It’s absolute hogwash. If you control for the applicants abilities, there’s NO evidence that “elite” schools provide better careers. They have higher entry level salaries right out of school, but after five years in the workplace, there’s no significant difference. Except $300K in tuition spent and pretty trees on campus.
