The spoils of the industrial revolution have run out, and the current generation of young people are now paying for it. That fact is average income for young adults is lower than it was 20 years ago, while the price of everything has gone up. The Globe and Mail did the math in its wealth gap feature in late 2013. Compounded with far fewer full-time jobs and weaker-than-ever unions, we are painted a bleak picture. Yet this doesn't stop the boomers and Gen X from labelling Gen Yers as lazy and entitled...The truth is, they were the ones with all the entitlements and hand outs.
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