Saturday, February 12

The "Babies on Board" tykes are ready to take the wheel.

 Yes, the offspring of the Yuppies -- the young urban professionals who traded in their ideals for the capitalistic growth and materialistic acquisitions of the 1980s -- who plastered the yellow symbols on the back of their cars as they became parents alerting all other drivers to the precious cargo inside needing special consideration from other cars, apparently-- are now behind the wheel, driving many markets.

Did they learn ethics? Do you trust they will think of others, and uphold professional practices that ensure equal treatment for all, at least in practice?  Have they been trained by their parents to protect their own, even if it unfairly costs others?

Will they ultimately imitate the Boomer generation, who had great ideals but stalled so in putting them in practice because the high life beckoned and good times would be exclusively enjoyed behind closed doors and high hedges once they got a taste of the good life and there was no looking back?

The problem with "leaders" artificially installed in exclusive positions is that they often don't see others on the ground working and weren't immersed in a real-life environment surmounting economic or physical obstacles coming up.  On paper, their ideas work.

Think of it like a team of well-practiced players who can make beautiful shots in practice because they've never had a defender on them.  Put them in a real-life game though, and they crumple like a flaky pastry and a milky coffee made just so.

It's easy to focus on the past, and pretend that something is still owed to you and yours by virtue of simply surviving.  Meanwhile, everybody else is driving and surviving on the same roads, -- no segregation here -- and is unwilling to defer to your offspring who should by now be respectfully merging in, up to speed already.


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