This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential 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. 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, we elect some politicians who are 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 we didn't 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 smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
@EdKrassen@jamestalarico Is that all? With that amount of stupid people for a great state of Texas? That is actually good! You dream of a blue Texas? Keep dreaming!
Father of 22-year-old Logan Federico screaming at Democrats in Congress after his daughter was dragged from bed, forced on her knees, and executed...
...by a man arrested 39 TIMES with 25 FELONIES...
May be the most powerful and heartbreaking video I've ever watched.
Everyone who let this demon walk freely, should be in prison.
Leftism was always a pseudo radical movement.
They don’t want to smash the system and eat the rich.
They want to control the system and become the rich.
The west is in great danger of repeating a deadly historical mistake: treating success itself as a crime.
In 1929 Stalin launched the policy of “dekulakisation” – the deliberate destruction of the most productive peasants in the Soviet Union. Kulaks were not the richest aristocrats; they were simply the hardest-working, most competent farmers who had managed to create a slightly better life for their families. They were demonised as “class enemies” had their land, tools and livestock confiscated, and were deported, imprisoned or executed. Millions died in the resulting Holodomor famine.
The justification was always the same: equality and justice demanded tearing down those who had “too much.”
Sound familiar? Today, the political rhetoric has shifted from “kulaks” to “the rich”, “the 1%” and “millionaires and billionaires”. The language is softer, but the underlying sentiment is identical: successful people are portrayed as immoral exploiters whose wealth must be seized for the “common good”. Wealth taxes, windfall taxes and open calls to “eat the rich” are presented as moral imperatives.
The lesson from Soviet history is clear. Once a society accepts the premise that it is legitimate to destroy a productive class in the name of equality, it doesn’t stop at the very rich. It eventually consumes the merely successful, then the middle class and finally destroys the very wealth creation the country depends on.
Envy disguised as justice has a deadly track record. We should recognise it when we see it.
@ewarren So , he’s absolutely not a King 👑 Huh! That’s why “No King” protest is a scam 😆 how can a big politician like @ewarren could say a president of the US could own IRS. Demagogue
He’s right bc we tax income, not wealth.
Bezos takes out a tiny salary, pays the income tax, and lives off loans borrowed against his stocks, basically tax free. They all do this and now 935 billionaires hold more wealth than 170 million Americans.
It’s time to tax wealth.
The @TheDemocrats wants to do opposite to scam the votes until Americans recognize the patterns. They try to make people feel the rat rate smells good, smooth, Joyful, full of honesty and love and care . Too good to be true 😆😆😆
Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.