Comments on: The End Of American Childhood https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/05/05/the-end-of-childhood/ Thu, 05 May 2016 17:43:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/05/05/the-end-of-childhood/#comment-469425 Thu, 05 May 2016 17:43:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22467#comment-469425 Where is it going?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jul/21/offshore-wealth-global-economy-tax-havens

]]> By: Desertphile https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/05/05/the-end-of-childhood/#comment-469424 Thu, 05 May 2016 16:52:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=22467#comment-469424 Sounds like an interesting book; I will go see if there is a Kindle sample available. Cultures are often fundamentally different, but there are also a great many similarities. On difference is life expectations: in many countries I’ve visited the people do not expect to be happy, nor do they expect to be treated honestly nor fairly, nor do they expect to improve their quality of life / standard of living.

A few years ago my nephew asked me if I resent nearly starving to death when I was a child and teenager (in Los Angeles, then Central America); my neighbors and peers did not know any other way of living, so neither did I.

What I do resent is that millions of young people in the USA already have life worse (on the whole) than I did; and than their parents did. Their children will have an even lower standard of living. Technology and automation was supposed to bring economic equality and freedom— that’s what USA in the 1950s believed. USA citizens now create an astounding amount of wealth: where the bloody hell is it going? To sure as hell isn’t going to the people who create it, and it will not go to their children.

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