And I would like to ask a personal question

[Summer Hathaway]

15. And thanks for proving my point.

You assume I am "cozy in my middle class or higher retirement". I'm not.

But it is perhaps the job of the discontent to make such assumptions and, in the doing, encourage discontent among others.

"Except we are screwn, in ways that are NOT the same old same old."

Again, if I had dime for every time I've heard that in my life, I would be posting this reply from my yacht as it cruises the Mediterranean on its way to one of my many multi-million dollar, paid-in-cash, mortgage-free European castles.

Living as long as I have, my perspective encompasses many decades. And if you think you just invented the oh-woe-is-us wheel, I can assure you it's been available, reasonably priced (and, if you act NOW!, includes lovely wind-chimes and a set of Ginzu knives!) since before you were born.

But, by all means, please go about your "we're all screwn" life. It's that kind of rhetoric that keeps my generation in stitches.