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I used to feel the way you do. Now I'm a 40-something feel a lot less that way. You know why?

The same reason I blame "good cops" that watch bad cops murder a black man while politely saying "please stop, aren't you afraid of your dash cam catching it? Just let him go man"... but don't actually intervene.

The generation we're mad at aren't the ones who did this. They're the ones who said "the billionaires are right. None of us are working hard enough for them. I'm going to teach my children to work harder for less". The boomers/silent (even early-X) are the enablers, and enablers are guilty, too.

I'll put it this way. I know a guy who thinks his daughter is lazy because she won't pick up minimum wage work part-time at a factory to supplement her 6-figure salary. "It's not about the money, it's about work ethic". I know another, a small business owner that's mad he can't keep a head chef at his mom&pop restaurant for $18/hr "because this generation is all too lazy". The living wage here is in the $22/hr range. I know a third small business owner (this one technically a millenial) who gives his workers paycuts each year then calls them lazy princesses when they refuse shifts that require them to drive 2 hours at minimum wage.

NONE of them are the real villain. But ALL of them are still responsible.