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Things were ''really'' shit in the decades before you were born, kids. | Things were ''really'' shit in the decades before you were born, kids. | ||
She might object she is talking only about that cohort that is already in the Bay area, or Hoxton. But that’s not how it works: ambitious kids work like tyros, wherever they are. | She might object she is talking only about that professionally educated cohort that is already in the Bay area, or Hoxton. But that’s not how it works: ambitious kids, however formally educated, work like tyros, wherever they are. If there’s an advantage to being there in person, they’ll take it. They will show up in the office even if you don't. They will get in earlier and work later if you do. These are the ones who will compel you to get to the office, if you want to get ahead, not “embittered boomers”. | ||
But, Scanlon might say, “okay, but ''that was then''. Thanks, and all, but it is ''different'' now. Why don’t we change ''now''?” She puts it down to intransigence and, a little bit, to we of the embittered prior generations, who trot out commonplaces like the screed above, and don’t see why the next generation can’t suck it up too. | But, Scanlon might say, “okay, but ''that was then''. Thanks, and all, but it is ''different'' now. Why don’t we change ''now''?” She puts it down to intransigence and, a little bit, to we of the embittered prior generations, who trot out commonplaces like the screed above, and don’t see why the next generation can’t suck it up too. | ||