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I heard this so much in my "misguided liberal" youth. Now I'm in my 50s, and I have learned so much, seen so much, and can confidently be sure of*** even less than that of which I was sure in my teens and 20s***!
All of the people who told me "you'll understand when you're older" were full of shit. Some of them are still alive and one thing that I understand for sure: they stopped learning, stopped paying attention, and they are confidently incorrect about things that stopped being true during the first and second Reagan administrations.
Here's a great example: my damned Conservative, MAGA, kick-the-ladder-out-from-behind-her mother. "You should just stay with an employer, stop changing jobs, and they'll give you a pension." Uh, yeah Mom, pensions are no longer a thing. Also, job hopping is how we get meaningful salary increases.