will go down. They do believe that global warming is real, and dangerous. But unlike the generation that is coming up now, they don't believe that much can be done about it. They are somewhat passive about the future. They absorbed a lot of the Fukuyama End of History rhetoric and took it to heart. They are also for some reason quite anti-democratic. They don't believe inequality is is a particularly important problem, and they think that people should be rewarded purely meritocratically based on the quality of their genes or the economic value added by their personal achievements. They disdain unions, broad-based social solidarity, sharing and national camaraderie, but do believe in spreading personal liberty. They have read lots of Hayek, and consequently don't believe in the capacity of human politics to plan or organize anything substantial. But they think that what problems remain for humanity can only be solved by maintaining the incentives for markets to tackle them. Again unlike the generations older than them and younger than them, they believe greed is on the whole good, and don't approve of people being criticized for it. In short immature spoiled brats that were the children of my generation. The slightest examination of the role of wealth inequality become "class warfare" Concrete and reasoned examples are ignored and met with name calling -- "bitter", "jealous" etc. Evidence of the effects of income inequality are answered with fatuous talk about "how the troll pays the mortgage on time" -- as