Cat is 5-10 years younger than us, and was in college when the tech bubble burst.
The issues she discusses are real, but she presents her upbringing as this sort of universal experience, and ... no. That wasn't my experience at all. This thread makes an attempt to get at that, and Cat sort of brushes it off.
That people in the past could help younger generations is mostly a function of class. The only reason I didn't grow up in a housing project was because my grandfather has a PhD and worked for NIH. My family had one generation of upward mobility (factory workers/farmers -> PhD) then one generation back down (secretary, mechanic). My generation is the same level as our parents, for the most part, except 3/4 of us have college degrees & they don't.
Her "expectations to go to college, buy a big house, keep it spotless" are so foreign to me they may as well be from Mars.
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Date: 2011-01-28 12:22 am (UTC)From:The issues she discusses are real, but she presents her upbringing as this sort of universal experience, and ... no. That wasn't my experience at all. This thread makes an attempt to get at that, and Cat sort of brushes it off.
That people in the past could help younger generations is mostly a function of class. The only reason I didn't grow up in a housing project was because my grandfather has a PhD and worked for NIH. My family had one generation of upward mobility (factory workers/farmers -> PhD) then one generation back down (secretary, mechanic). My generation is the same level as our parents, for the most part, except 3/4 of us have college degrees & they don't.
Her "expectations to go to college, buy a big house, keep it spotless" are so foreign to me they may as well be from Mars.