From the article: Free-market capitalism offered the generation born after 1985 the moon and stars. Now, in the west, it can offer very little. Even for those with jobs, there is a dramatic scaling back of opportunity that makes no version of the future seem palatable. In Athens, I interviewed a female anti-fascist, who alleged she had been strip-searched and abused in the police HQ: what was her job? "I wait tables," she said, adding with an embarrassed laugh, "but I am a qualified civil engineer." To survive, the young have become a generation of drifters, reliving the plotlines of movies from the 1930s. Without some massive and cathartic turnaround, the generation in their 20s, in the west, will never accumulate pay, conditions or savings at the level their parents did. What they are accumulating is resentment. guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/05/arab-spring-global-revolution
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:58:54 +0000
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