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DangerDuke said

I think that once these kids start living in the real world for a while they'll grow up. Either that or they'll use their large block of votes to change the government to take care of them and this ship will go down like the titanic. Either way, I'm pretty sure the people on this boar will be fine 🙂 

I was rather curious about this. Like jonathco I'm technically part of the group and always hear nothing but negative perceptions. I was one of the first of my friends to buy a property and still have friends driving around the country in vans instead of owning a home. These people are, coincidentally, also software and hardware developers taking home 100k a year.

In school there was a lot of "you're special" treatment and participation awards in school. While I'm not disagreeing, I think this soft treatment will have an interesting effect on parenting skills, and on how they perceive that the government is there to solve their problems (despite having low turn out).

At home I was still growing up as the internet became a commodity and computer games increased in popularity. My parents felt more comfortable with me at home due to their increasing skepticism - there I played games and talked to even neighbors via AIM. This tends to lead to social anxiety and problems with communicating.

I think that I lucked out because 1) my neighborhood had a ton of kids the same age as me. I couldn't go 10 minutes without someone knocking on my door wanting to play as a kid 2) my father is a physicist and made my brother and I view everything as scientific (for potato cannons, building our own fireworks, and our own tree houses).