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Gen Z vs Boomers: Is “OK Boomer” Ageist? | Middle Ground - YouTube
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I don't trust the younger generation in
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terms of values because I don't even
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think they know what it is that they
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value does the term swirling nowadays
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okay boomer okay boomer okay boomer
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trend it's going viral almost like a
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demeaning term to older people the
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Millennials and Generation Z have the
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Peter Pan syndrome they don't ever want
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to grow up this grievance culture as you
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suggest that says the we're all owed
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something from the world and if we don't
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get it it's because the system has
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failed us okay why can't you love me as
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much as you love to share memes
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my name is Mike symfon Dora I'm 57 years
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old from Bellflower California I got
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four kids my name is Toni Jackson Walker
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I'm from Los Angeles California I'm 65
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years old my name is Jess I'm 20 and I'm
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from Ventura California my name is
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Corrine I'm 21 and I'm from East LA hi
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my name is Stefan I'm also 21 and I am a
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student and artist I'm bill I am a
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writer and a dad of two and I'm a baby
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boomer line up over on the left and my
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gen Z over on the right okay boomer is
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ageist
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I think the phrase okay boomer is ages
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because determine itself erases the
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entire experience of a whole generation
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if we as gens ears were to get that same
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energy from boomers we would feel
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ostracized and we would feel
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marginalized I've never heard the term
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okay but I feel like it's like just
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missing something that someone says but
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implying to someone who's a baby boomer
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like if someone were to say oh I don't
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like Starbucks you'd be like okay boomer
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oh that's funny to me rather than
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insulting I personally don't think it's
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necessarily ageist because being a
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boomer is more associated with certain
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behavioral patterns and mindsets
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and like potentially political views so
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it's kind of more about the
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characteristics of a boomer rather than
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the age itself it's kind of like they're
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like hold back in my day type language
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and our response to back in my day is
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okay when we're well we said that to our
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parents too
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do you have kids yes well we all have so
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I wouldn't say something in something
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about my kids generation because they're
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all chinzy so I love my gen Z kids so I
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wouldn't knock them for that they
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couldn't help when they were born older
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generations create problems that younger
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generations have to solve speaking for
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like at least myself and a lot of my
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close friends I feel as though there
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have been a lot of issues that we've had
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to kind of take on such as the
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environment such as a lot of wars that
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we had nothing to do with yet we have to
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end up with like the repercussions no I
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would agree and I do think that's sort
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of true of every generation you have to
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deal with the world that your parents
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gave you when my children were born
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there were enough cellphones my daughter
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was born in 2001 and just in that 18
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years you know 19 years almost that she
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been alive the whole world has changed
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radically and it's scary for us as
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parents because my generation
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technically gave that to your generation
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and it has changed not only your
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generation but ours too in terms of the
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time that we have for each other
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everybody sitting around doing this you
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know when you're all sitting in a room
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together and that's us too if there were
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anything I wish we could dial back a
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little bit it would be that all the
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older generations may have created those
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problems I don't think they did it on
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purpose the hindsight is 20/20 so once
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you see the effects of what you've done
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I don't necessarily think it's just the
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younger generations cleaning up the
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problems I do believe that the older
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generations offer support as well I
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think historically there are issues that
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are inherent in each generation because
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there are certain things they'll always
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be war and there'll always be poverty
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but it doesn't necessarily mean that a
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generation created it and another
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generation is going to come and solve it
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because I don't believe it will ever be
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solved in essence it will be something
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as perpetrated and ongoing it's always
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gonna be this way my parents left
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problems for us to solve we're gonna
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leave problems for you to solve I think
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it comes down to what do we do about it
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because it takes a lot of leadership to
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go I don't think what I've been doing or
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been a part of has been very helpful but
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I want to try to earn the right to help
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fix it I trust the values of the other
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generation
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I do just as much I may question some of
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the values that they're talking about
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one of these that personally bothers me
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we've allowed communism to become an
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acceptable thought process in this
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country to govern us which also tells me
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we haven't done our job but yet when you
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look at why is it brought up it's
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because people feel enormous we
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frustrated and we need to address the
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people in our age bracket why are they
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frustrated and how do we change some of
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that they grew up in a different world
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than we did yes when I got out of
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college I got a job I got an apartment I
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was able to live by myself and you could
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do that then the world that our children
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are coming into it's not nearly as easy
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to do because of the price of housing
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because of the sort of wages they can
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get there aren't companies that you can
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go and enter now at twenty one or two
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and know that you're gonna work for 40
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years for that company when I grew up I
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knew what my beliefs and my values were
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gonna be because my mother passed down
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the same ones that my grandmother had I
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passed on the same ones to my son now I
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think somewhere in between the
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generations between you all and us
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things have changed we stopped talking
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we stopped saying what we value I don't
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trust the younger generation in terms of
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values because I don't even think they
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know what it is that they value do you
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value another person's life I tell my
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son oh my god when the worse things can
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happen to me is someone in this
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generation would have to take care of me
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they don't understand me they don't know
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anything about me that goes to the
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prompt which is do you trust the other
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side's values and I think the values
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that you may have grown up with in terms
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of what you were taught about being
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homosexual and whatnot good I grew up
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queer in a black family that's a whole
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different dynamic and what they were
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taught that was brought down to them
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intergenerationally
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have been homophobia and it's like
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that's what I think of when I think of
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values of my elders and I can't trust it
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because in terms of policy it was your
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generation I got it wrong so many times
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and that have put LGBTQ people in to a
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second-class status and we're trying to
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get that back as our generation I'm not
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really even sure what like the values of
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baby boomers are like what they would
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agree on are but I do appreciate all the
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work that has been done for us by that
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generation like civil rights women's
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rights like LGBT rights I was born with
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all those rights but it was really the
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people that were a lot of them baby
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boomers in those protests that got me
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where it got us where we are today I was
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a young gay boy and couldn't even say
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the word until I was in my 20s it was
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the most horrible thing you could
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imagine growing up to me I couldn't talk
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to anybody about it yeah I mean I'm gay
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and there's so much progress that has
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been made but there's still so much to
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be made when I think of values of like
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baby boomers the first thing that I
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think of is kind of just the holy hard
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work gets you pretty much anywhere
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mindset and I just feel like that's so
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toxic because there are so many other
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barriers that a lot of people don't talk
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about like if you're poor if you have
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like kids if you don't have
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opportunities for education like those
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three just alone will inhibit your
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success well I think that was true when
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we were young hard work did get you very
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far my husband worked in a company which
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he started in his 20s and worked there
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for many years it was just an
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established company with a you know
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retirement plan and all this sort of
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thing and those don't exist anymore your
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generation doesn't have those guarantees
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and I think that is why you're seeing
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such a large scale rejection of
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capitalism and I don't think it's
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communism I think what our generation is
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exploring now is socialism which is not
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the same as communism you guys inherited
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a
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an economy that works for working people
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we are inheriting a gig economy for
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subcontractors that only works for the
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rich and powerful when our generation is
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exploring is democratizing the workplace
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and social justice things like that that
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are really for the people which is at
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the core of what socialism is we are
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growing up in a different country then
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you guys are growing up in and we are
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looking for alternatives because we know
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this is not sustainable
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I believe my generation will leave the
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world a better place I hope you do too I
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plan on fighting to do our part that
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when I part that you've inherited things
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that have improved and then I hope when
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you leave the earth you've made it even
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better and handy because if we don't
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game over and that may be a dramatic
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term but I tell people you know mileage
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we don't have a choice do we leave it
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better or worse it's an obligation let
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me put it this way you're gonna know we
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were here we laid a foundation for you
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all to come and do bigger greater things
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civil rights women's rights boycotts
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we fought for everything and we're still
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working we're still making changes and I
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think this generation will leave making
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a better place because of everybody
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else's work my family always says like
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in terms of raising kids with your
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parents you take what you like and you
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lose what you don't so I think we have
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such an advantage with the internet
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being able to see what was done wrong
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generations ago and what we can do now
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to fix it I want to believe that and I
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have a lot of hope that we will and I
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feel like we have the potential but
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knowing what I know about history a lot
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of what we're experiencing today are
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just new renditions of what we've
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already experienced and we know that
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history repeats itself we just don't
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know when to call it and
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it's oftentimes when we call it it's too
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late knowing what I know about the
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environment and what's really going to
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happen it's like I can't realistically
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say that when I in good conscience we
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want to like bring a new generation into
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this world and knowing that it will be a
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better world for them we can't save the
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world we can only say guess what we were
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here we made a change we attempted to do
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good and we attempted to help others and
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become more diverse and if we did that
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you know what we did something
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collectively individually we made the
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world a better place I'm believing great
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things for you
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