My Generation is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us

Hi, it's that Gratitude Guy with a special video today

I found this article recently and I thought it was very well worth sharing

It's entitled, My Generation is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us by Alyssa Algren

She writes, I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Lake Nokomomis, I think in Minneapolis

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 quote unquote 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 MacBooks, 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 become completely

blind to its vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose

These are things that 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. 31 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 on 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, quote, an entire generation, which has now become one of the largest electorates

in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity, end quote

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 firsthand. 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 see, 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, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? Why? 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

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