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Originally Posted by HarryT
VERY well said, Neon. It seems that the concept of simply accepting that you can't afford to buy something is "alien" to many of today's youngsters.
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Yes, this
truly is a problem that only "the young" have. They've somehow not been raised right by their parents, whom I presume all were cheeky buggers from the hippie generation, thus allowing you to construct a facile explanation for
what went wrong, and why today's young are so morally corrupt, whereas older people aren't (or weren't). Ugh.
Your cheap populism disappoints me, Harry. Blaming it all on the young is as old as the bible, and it proves nothing, other than that the generation that raised them either collectively failed as parents - which seems rather unlikely - or that the younger generation just grew up in a different environment, and was raised differently, with parents that got them everything they ask for without ever telling them that they'd still be happy if they "wanted" a little bit less, because they could just afford it, or because they were willing to go into debt themselves.
Sure, you can call that expectation unrealistic, but to issue a blanket "sua culpa" and stopping there is just intellectual laziness.