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    7 hours ago

    Gen Z is often dismissed as apathetic.

    So was Gen X. We were the slacker generation. There’s nothing new here; people have been complaining about young generations since the ancient Egyptians.

    But the generation that really let us down were the baby boomers, who started out with the high-minded ideals of the hippies, and then voted for neoliberalism and the teardown of all the institutions that helped people.

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      6 hours ago

      While I share the sentiment, the generational divides are the veil to the real issue: class divide. Those who own the media own the right to shape thoughts. From there anything is moldable.

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        Absolutely. Every generation has its poor and its rich., its good people and its bad ones. The real issue is thst that divide has been growing bigger over the past 4 decades, which makes it harder for younger generations to build the kind of life that was standard for older generations.