SDR and PR, you both bring up some very interesting and valid points and both arguable to some extent.
It’s no surprise that we all pretend to understand the current crisis or predict where it will go, but at the end of the day we could all be wrong. To argue SDR’s point just for a moment, I think there are some core differences of growing up with very little on a steel worker’s income compared to a completely different generation where the young depend on their next social media fix.
There’s an obvious truth that doesn’t require numbers or statistics and that’s the fact that this generation relies heavily on the government and many lack the ability to survive on their own.
I own lots of land, plenty of metals, some grains and many other tools allowing me to survive any sort of crisis. But the truth is I don’t trust myself because I’ve never had to. I’m in my early thirties and worked solely from a computer my entire adult life. Would I cope? Maybe, but there’s no certainty as I’ve been lucky to have planted one tree and a couple of flowers since I was a child. Maybe I’m abnormal or maybe that’s most of the people in my age bracket. We’ve just grown up in an entirely different generation.
I certainly didn’t grow up with a silver spoon. In fact I supported my poor mother at the age of 12. But truthfully I don’t even call that struggling. America gave me the ability at 12 to thrive and survive. Those same tools are slowly dwindling for many and the real question is what will happen if America really does take a turn for the worse? No one has the answer, but I will say that everyone better stock up on their Xanax because there will be a high level of young, anxious people in this country if something does go wrong. Could you imagine no Facebook or Twitter? I wouldn’t be able to see what my buddy John had for dinner or read another has been Charlie Sheen tweet.
