The 'shareholder value' idea won out, because companies that thought in this way, eventually out competed those that did not.

And it is still true today. The only difference is we now have a counter culture against such ideas. The result is corporations, individual, parties etc. that CLAIM to not follow such thinking, but when push comes to shove DO follow such thinking.

I don't think we are better off. If you want to change the game, you need to change the rules. Trying to change behaviors while leaving the rules as they are, is foolish and pointless.

I am an X-er... my view of Melinnial reform can be summarized as just this: foolish and pointless.

It is not that the things sought are not worth seeking... they are... it is not that the perceived ills are evil.... the are.

But fixing the system, requires proposals that acknowledge the economic and social realities and then create systems to account for them. Millennial thinking is largely 'wishful thinking' It won't progress... it wont end well.

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Recently here on medium I read a poor woman who could not live in her chosen city of Brighton. At one point she declared that it was a basic human right to be able to living in ones city of convenience.

She was obviously in pain, so I did not respond. But what happens when too many people view the same city as their city of choice? How do we ensure all of their "human rights"???

This fuzz headded thinking will only leave the next generation ever more despondent that they are not 'getting what they deserve'

its not just a decade... I think we may need to wait for the generation AFTER the Millennials to right the ship... or revolution.... though those often end up with a cure worse than the disease.

I accept that Boomers (and X-ers) created problems, but so far it seems Millennials are woefully unprepared to fix them.