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It was supposed to be Space travel. Flying cars. Automatons and lasers. Deep sea robots that could explore any shipwreck and show us the animals of the deep. Nanobots and cancer-cures.
We were promised the world would be ready for millenials to get into every field and make the differences they wanted to be, and so much more, as Dragons hoarded all the money and chopped the legs out from every ladder.
I always think about this when this topic comes up. 9/11 happens and Bush says 'Drill baby drill'.
What if we had a president that was like 'hey maybe we should get over our addiction to fossil fuels and sever this toxic relationship with the middle east?' All the lives and money and time wasted on wars, and the destabilization it lead to in the USA and Europe which pulled people even further rightward toward this autocratic environmental suicide pact.
I wonder how different things would be if 1% of the people in Florida got off their couch and voted Gore.
EDIT I get y'all and agree but the point is that if Gore had won but just a bit more they wouldn't have been able to stop the count and send it to SCOTUS
Or if the Supreme Court hadn't given Florida to Bush.
Are elections rules by the courts? What?
britannica.com/event/Bush-v-Gore
For anyone genuinely wondering
Turns out Gore did win, but the election was handed to Bush anyway. We could've been in a much different world.
A relatively long video on the topic (half hour) but a good one. https://youtu.be/jucDFrO89Ko
I legit think this is the pivotal moment where everything started going downhill (at first, so slowly that we didn't notice, but downhill still)
...Gore won Florida. Jus' saying
Well it's on my list of things to change if a time machine is ever invented.
And we (millennials) went off and got our educations, and returned to the "real" world just to run into the brick wall that is Boomers- who've refused to retire, and who refuse to improve anything unless it benefits themselves, but are perfectly willing to gaslight everyone within earshot because they're incapable of admitting they're out of their element.
And now 20 years have gone by. Same fucking Boomers still hoarding and refusing to step off the top rungs of Corporate ladders.
Baby boom generation ended in 1964. Retirement age for full social security benefits for people born between 1960-1964 is 67 years. Someone born in 1960 has slightly more than two years until full retirement age. Most boomers were/are not c-suite executives. Most boomers will rely heavily on social security benefits.
Unfathomable why so many boomers are enthralled by the candidate/party that want to destroy social security. Something something, no war but class war.
I mean we do have lasers. We've had lasers for ages.
Deep sea robots, too. We did it, everyone!
April fools!
Jetpacks!