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Subject: One Generation Looks Back on Another

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Date Posted: 20:41:19 03/08/24 Fri
In reply to: RedWin 's message, "Re: Yale joins Dartmouth in restoring admissions Testing Requirement" on 18:22:29 03/07/24 Thu

RW, if you are in the mood to favor us with more explication, I for one would like to hear more about your assertion that, "in reality, a significant number of the students we have interviewed are simply not employable."

I am well aware there have probably been few generations who did not think that the one behind them could use some bucking up. Classic "get off my lawn."

But I am shocked at where the children of my friends are at this stage in life. I'd say about a third of them are living at home, unemployed or underemployed, trying to find themselves. This during the strongest labor market in the past quarter-century.

It's not universal and our generation wasn't perfect, by any means. But the percent of my class which graduated from college and then kind of spun their wheels was low, maybe 5%. The current cohort between the age of 22 and 27 seems to be around 30-40%.

Part of this is that the real cost of housing has gone way up in the past two generations. But it's not just that they're living at home with Mom and Dad, it's that they are like Benjamin in "The Graduate," aimless and unmotivated. Speaking of inter-generational comparisons. . . .

Is this my imagination or my looming senior years talking?

Sometimes I think that growing up in a time of affluence and comfort can be a real handicap. If you've never known discomfort, what makes you go?

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