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Bober's avatar

Great piece for telling us what we already know: we have a generation that is peppered with self-centered, egotistical half wits who are the direct result of "helicopter" and or "bulldozer" parents who themselves are living with a lot of delusions. There are many young people who do not fall into this category but we never see or hear anything from them, and there is a reason for that.

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Douglas Hayward's avatar

Most kids are sensible but тАж if you get rewarded for whining, attention seeking and playing the victim, itтАЩs almost irrational not to do so.

ItтАЩs about perverse incentives created by well-meaning policies whose unintended consequences that have not thought through.

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Bober's avatar

Very true. You have essentially defined neoliberal government the past 50 years; good intentions, poor executions.

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