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@nettermike What's the link (source) for this article, please?

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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."

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@KhanSaba1278 Where did you get your basis for the market price per mm? He's got costs that exceed this patch, which include travel to/from you, insurance, licensing, plus time and materials. You're also (hopefully) paying for a job done right. If it's worth $20 do it yourself.

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@monkey_peter @JomboyMedia Yea, and that straight line goes right thru the oriole. Learn to watch video, Monkey.

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@JeanJeanovan @BritishOrioles Won't matter if they aren't allowed to make their own lineups.

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@FrankRekas @BritishOrioles I don't dislike anything you said except for giving Cowser more time. We've seen what he has, he's had plenty of time. He can't hit off speed or breaking balls. Should've trade him and kept Stowers.

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@Orlando_AUTiger @BritishOrioles What makes you think the manager has any say in the lineups or the personnel decisions? This team is operating exactly like it was under Hyde. What's the constant here? Elias.

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@thanebellomo @BritishOrioles I love Gunnar, but the way he's playing how could we justify paying him anyway? Maybe someone else gives him a pile of cash and he plays at Hall of Fame level. That would be unfortunate, but it's just not happening here, so why would we pay him a ton of money?

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@ThrillaRilla369 @IntrepidUSA2018 @DadofGizmo Yes

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@ThrillaRilla369 Prices

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@james_xond Redistribution of wealth from your wallet to the friends of the politicians.

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Travel enough and you get to notice how much slower baggage @SouthwestAir baggage handling is at @BWI as compared to other airports. It's been this way for years, no exaggeration.

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@koestreicher34 Will, Harbaugh is gone, so that's a plus right there ...

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Another traffic light that you've missed in the citywide retiming. Doesn't matter the day or the time, Boston St is a disaster because of this light. And because of the lights At Alice Anna and Fleet. @BmoreCityDOT

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@itsrosesm Yes. But it will never pass.

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@lady_valor_07 NO. Four? Nice try.

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@flock313 It's the life you choose when you choose it. Celebrate when you're 35.

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@MontiOrioles Depends on how good the product on the field is. It's not a single answer.

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@RavensTalkPod Apparently, they aren't to be believed

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@MikenzieFrost @FOXBaltimore Of course he's endorsing him. Ferguson was on the news yesterday running interference for Scott's plan to handcuff the inspector General.