Reply #116: It started with the Gen Xers coming of age in the 80's, from hippies to Reagan yuppies wearing Izod

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shirts.

It was as if the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the anti war movement, the environmental movement had never occurred.

I was living in a one bedroom rented apt with very little discretionary income seeing kids 10-15 years my junior buying up cars, houses and so forth, all on credit and eschewing any values beyond conspicuous consumption.

Money had become the only thing that mattered. I feel sort of quaint that I drive an old car, have moved back to an apt, although that was a downsize from a house after our daughter went to college and save money to buy things with cash instead of credit.

I work with Gen Xers who have huge mortgages, with seconds, and who can't ever consider working fewer hours or changing jobs to less pay but less stress.


Lawyers in Love, indeed.
MKJ