SamuelRSmith on 26 November 2011
| lordmandeep said: My parents story is like that. Instead of sulking and never doing anything with their lives like the OWS people, they worked hard as they had a family that depended on them. I do agree times have changed, before you could work hard and get a better life, but it is harder in today's world. Upward mobility is way down from the past. |
No, it isn't. It's just a different path. The best thing our parents generation could have to done to increase their wealth was buy a house. For us, it's better if we rent and save. It was better for our parents to enter the workforce as unskilled labour, and work their way up. For us, it's better if we enter the workforce as skilled labour.
Times are harder if you expect to have the same climb as your parents did, if you acknowledge the world is changing, and react to those changes accordingly, you can end up as prosporous as the previous generation.
I'll agree that, in the future, times will be harder for the moochers. But I have no problem with that.
