This is the thing that concerns me. Too many entitlements for older people and few demands on richer people putting all of the burdens on the young and those who work to survive. Heck, even going to college is now a potentially lifelong financial burden.
Gazing ahead of themselves, I think young people see, quite rightly, that they are getting ripped off.
Here's an excerpt from an article by Robert Kuttner called In Praise of Unrealistic Ideas:
"The Sanders voters tend to be younger, more driven by hope than by anger, and painfully aware that their generation has gotten the short end of the stick -- costly college loans, too few real jobs with career tracks, unaffordable housing, and a generational fable about how cool it is to live in a world defined by Facebook, Uber, Starbucks and Airbnb, even if incomes are low and unreliable. Maybe you'll invent a killer app, but maybe you won't. Will that be for here or to go?
These problems are not going away -- they are only deepening. And nothing on offer in mainstream politics is likely to fix them.
Radical ideas are outside the mainstream -- until they're not."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/in-praise-of-unrealistic-_b_9128740.html
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