no generation in history

Here's the quote from some American academic I've never heard of I was telling you about on Friday night.
From this week's Time magazine [half their readership are 'millenials' - that's you] where the two feature articles were on the impact of the youth vote on the US Presidential election, and the new age of how to grow old gracefully.

"No generation in history has ever been so technologically empowered, with so boundless a sense of wonder and possibilty, yet this is a downwardly mobile generation with less wealth, more debt, higher unemployment and fewer owned homes than their parents' generation had".


Sorry to have left you the world in a shittier state than we found it in.


(Originally published 22-02-16)