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A short article by Alyssa Ahlgren
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This article was written by a college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA.
It's a short article but definitely worth a read.
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us
I?m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about.
I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates
calling for policies to ?fix? the so-called injustices of capitalism.
I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on
their MacBook?s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and
it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and
we?ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate
with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don?t
give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the
global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered
poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with
one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation
continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to
Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, ?An entire generation, which is now
becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.?
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself,
that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I?ve ever heard in my
26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have
never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let?s just say I didn?t have the
popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting
at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity?
We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly
impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they?ve never seen prosperity, and
as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why?
The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn?t
live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or
see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don?t know what it?s like to live without the internet, without cars, without smart-phones.
We don?t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness
problem, and it?s spreading like a plague.?
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!
It's a short article but definitely worth a read.
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us
I?m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about.
I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates
calling for policies to ?fix? the so-called injustices of capitalism.
I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on
their MacBook?s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and
it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and
we?ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate
with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don?t
give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the
global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered
poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with
one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation
continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to
Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, ?An entire generation, which is now
becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.?
Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself,
that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I?ve ever heard in my
26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have
never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let?s just say I didn?t have the
popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting
at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity?
We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly
impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they?ve never seen prosperity, and
as a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why?
The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn?t
live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or
see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don?t know what it?s like to live without the internet, without cars, without smart-phones.
We don?t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness
problem, and it?s spreading like a plague.?
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!
The government has no rights. Only the people have rights which empowers the government.
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
Comments
+1
You nailed it. I see it every day I leave my place. Rude ungrateful people that are totally self absorbed or slaves to their stupid phones.
It really makes me sick. I don't even like being around my nephews anymore because all they do is look at their fricken phones, they learned it from their dad :x
I agree.