My kid's generation doesn't really have a shred of hope, does it?

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229. worry accomplishes nothing

Wringing your hands and wailing about some miserable future is kinda silly. All it does is diminish what is real - the present - because of problems that are still just imagined, predicted. Of course, people do get paid apparently to write stuff about "future shock" sometimes even making really good money to stir people up. Future shock, you may remember was written in the 1970s.

If these people are able to predict the future, I would like some good stock picks.

I looked at what you said about the PRESENT and the PAST. Things which do NOT require speculation.

And your view there was very dark. As if my parents, grandparents, uncles, grand uncles, myself, my siblings, and so on spent their life kicking peoples' a$$es and taking what they had. I find that to be a dark and exceedingly pessimistic view of what was, some of which I experienced.

So, you have a dark view of the past, and you claim that worried predictions of the future are "reality".

I don't buy it. Seems like a bunch of cynicism designed to justify and attitude of "why should I work, why should I try?" and then, having given up, will proclaim, "it is impossible to make it in America, the American dream is dead."

Myself, I say that the California dream - deserves to die.That dream is, we will all be rich, very quickly (by finding gold). The American dream should be - we should live together as family, caring about each other.