depends on what they want to use their laptops and phones for ... to listen to sermons on the virtues of capitalism or to listen to sermons on their right to entitlements

The same can be said for Liberty and freedom now can’t it. And perhaps you should ask them (and yourself) exactly which nations that have rejected capitalism do they wish to live in.

Yeah... That whole pesky having to work for capital thing is such a pain..

Reading the responses to this thread makes me pretty certain we are on the threshold of idiocracy in practice.

They have a greater store of human capital than any preceding generation in human history. They are better educated than those before them, and have all accumulated human knowledge at their fingertips. That's a lot to work with imho.

Clearly education is failing in what was once the land of opportunity! Others now are making opportunity elsewhere! Are they victims of success?

It ain't just young people.

Simply. What we have here in America is largely crony capitalism. Actual capitalism and responsible govt would give them the chance at a life similar to what previous generations enjoyed.

...it made IPhones...so they all can complain about it on Instagram and TikTok