A Wise Millennial Speaks.

EXCELLENT READ: A Wise Millennial Speaks

This article was written by a college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. It's a short article but definitely worth a read. I would love to see this go viral!!

"College Student: My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us

I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis, FL trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic 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. Democratic 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 are destitute and truly impoverished.

Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians 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 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."

EXCELLENT READ: A Wise Millennial Speaks

This article was written by a college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in
grad school for her MBA. It's a short article but definitely worth a read. I would love
to see this go viral!!

"College Student: My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us

I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis, FL trying to think of what to write
about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of
Democratic 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. Democratic 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 are destitute and truly impoverished.

Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result,
elect politicians 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
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."