>Well it's tough to make generalizations about such a huge age group,
>but yeah this is precisely the 'complaint' of younger people;
>'Boomers' sold out.
Which boomers? There are plenty of us working for unions, defending the indigent accused, writing for tiny pubs at low rates of pay. And what about the conditions of daily life? Relations between men and women are radically different from what they were just 30 years ago; ditto the status of sexual minorities. The sold-out boomers had something to do with that, no?
I could say that X'ers spent their prime years day trading - or I could cite Andrey Slivka's words from last week's NY Press:
>The dotcom era: a generation's-my generation's-complete capitulation
>to the money culture. This will be the dotcom sector's most lasting
>contribution to the world, and will be as difficult to extricate
>from the strands of our civilization, such as it is, as chewing gum
>is difficult to remove from hair: the concept of a money-culture
>bohemia.
But it'd be cheap to do that, since there are plenty of X'ers who didn't sign on to the money culture.
Doug