Young People are F*cked — Here’s What They Can Do About It
Scott Galloway recently published an essay titled “War on the Young.” In it, he looks at how America treats its young people as a proxy for measuring success. In his concluding thoughts, he asks a fairly salient question:
“Children make us better. We care for our kids, but do we love children? Somewhere along the way, we lost the script as a society. If we have the resources to address these issues — and we do: Nvidia added a quarter of a trillion to the economy in 5 minutes post-earnings — but continue to look the other way, then we have to ask: Is America worth investing in? And do we really love our children?”
As a millennial, I resonate deeply with this. America has the means to invest in its young people — our politicians constantly talk about how raising the next generation is important — but somewhere along the way we’ve missed the memo. We’re not doing it and that’s a problem.
Instead of building up our young people, we’re exploiting them. Each new generation that comes up seems to no longer represent an investment in the future, but a cohort to extract rents from in the present.
How sad is that?
It’s painfully obvious the extent to which young people are economically disadvantaged. As the meme goes, if only millennials had been wise…
