Good habits. It is hard to overstate the value of good habits. Only in a sick society such as the old USSR are good habits of little relevance or value. Good habits are the difference between using resources and opportunities well and wasting them.
At the same age, the Millennial generation is the least likely to commit crimes, the least likely to be involved in illegal drug use, and the least likely to do underage drinking. You generation is most likely to eschew private debt unless it is attached to an income stream or to the quality of life. You smoke less. Because you have endured the time of greatest disparities between elites and the masses rather early, you will be the least likely to waste money on trifles. Your generation is least likely to allow religion to be used as a tool of oppression or exploitation.
Some things already show. Because the Millennial Generation is in bad economic shape, it is not supporting the retail behemoths well enough to keep them from going under. You do not buy bling as did Generation X.
You are more likely, if really smart, to choose skilled trades over being an over-educated clerk with a high student-0loan debt. Such will make America better at creating the physical basis of prosperity. You may be in the position in which to fill the niches that the entities once thought 'too big to fail' either no longer serve after they go under, or niches that they never served well. Your technical people are creating less-pricey alternatives to over-priced, monopolized and crony-capitalist ways of doing things.
We have yet to see what your politicians will be, but if the GIs are any indication they will be refreshing. They will not stand for elites with senses of entitlement. You will likely support tax policies that tax the Hell out of 'easy money' but favor small business. Your economic policies will not support speculative booms. You will support housing policies that promote tract houses instead of McMansions through zoning policies and taxes. Heck, you will probably end up demolishing some awful McMansions so that we can have affordable housing in their place.
We have had two awful Presidents (Dubya and now Trump) in what will have been twelve of twenty years, and your politics and business practices will repudiate such, much as the GI Generation repudiated the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover triad of awfulness. Even if we end up with a Lost-style pol resembling Dwight Eisenhower, you will find someone who does not thwart progress.
Yes, I see Donald Trump as a one-term President due to his despotic style, corruption, and erratic behavior.
At the same age, the Millennial generation is the least likely to commit crimes, the least likely to be involved in illegal drug use, and the least likely to do underage drinking. You generation is most likely to eschew private debt unless it is attached to an income stream or to the quality of life. You smoke less. Because you have endured the time of greatest disparities between elites and the masses rather early, you will be the least likely to waste money on trifles. Your generation is least likely to allow religion to be used as a tool of oppression or exploitation.
Some things already show. Because the Millennial Generation is in bad economic shape, it is not supporting the retail behemoths well enough to keep them from going under. You do not buy bling as did Generation X.
You are more likely, if really smart, to choose skilled trades over being an over-educated clerk with a high student-0loan debt. Such will make America better at creating the physical basis of prosperity. You may be in the position in which to fill the niches that the entities once thought 'too big to fail' either no longer serve after they go under, or niches that they never served well. Your technical people are creating less-pricey alternatives to over-priced, monopolized and crony-capitalist ways of doing things.
We have yet to see what your politicians will be, but if the GIs are any indication they will be refreshing. They will not stand for elites with senses of entitlement. You will likely support tax policies that tax the Hell out of 'easy money' but favor small business. Your economic policies will not support speculative booms. You will support housing policies that promote tract houses instead of McMansions through zoning policies and taxes. Heck, you will probably end up demolishing some awful McMansions so that we can have affordable housing in their place.
We have had two awful Presidents (Dubya and now Trump) in what will have been twelve of twenty years, and your politics and business practices will repudiate such, much as the GI Generation repudiated the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover triad of awfulness. Even if we end up with a Lost-style pol resembling Dwight Eisenhower, you will find someone who does not thwart progress.
Yes, I see Donald Trump as a one-term President due to his despotic style, corruption, and erratic behavior.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.