>>When you hear people who graduated college in the 1970's or 1980's say "If I did it, then you can do it" all you can do is point this type of thing out - but all too often it falls on deaf ears.
IMHO it's akin to "let them eat cake" to talk down to the young like this. They're not stupid and when they realize exactly what has been done to them, history says what happens to the arrogant aristocrats.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
