Perhaps many of you aren't millionaires just yet but neither are the most of us. We hope you learn to put more emphasis on character and integrity and in getting a job done right than having all the money in the world. He told the young man that he thought the younger generation had forgotten the value of hard work. I don't know whatever will become of your generation, the young man was told. That was in the early part of this century and the young man was my own late grandfather.
Nothing really changes.
The Gen Xers will make it, too. Their world won't crumble. They will find that it wasn't nearly as bad as they thought. How their perspective will have changed in another 20 and 30 years. Most of us baby boomers would give anything to be around just to hear them tell the younger ones why Gen X screwed it all up.