re: The Forgotten about Generation X

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Prime example right here. Mir thinks older people "just don't understand". If they'd only listen to him because he's smarter and more wise. It never occcours to Mir to stop for a moment and listen and learn.... just like a Boomer in the 60s and 70s.

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You do understand that I'm 40 and exceptionally well off right? I'm just actually informed when it comes to how economies work.

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Perhaps the worst thing ever told young people was that to be truly successful in life you have to go to college. Fact is, there are simply way too many people graduating with degrees and accumulating insurmountable debt that really should have gotten a trade and been much more successful and happy in life, as well as more financially secure without all that debt around their damn necks.

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Told by us Gen Xers and baby boomers who also are the very same people who made college the obscene expense it is when it used to be easily affordable with a part time job in the summer