Reddit reviews The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future (The MIT Press)

> there's been surprisingly little generation-level analysis since the gen x stuff faded away.

This guy builds a case that Generation Y represents a sharp contrast to the boomers. He says the psychological profile strongly suggests a throwback to the values of the WWII generation.

This guy also has a lot to say about Generation Y.

> I don't think the generation y label ever really caught on.

It's definitely a real phenomenon and used in marketing circles, at least. It certainly exists as a demographic artifact; it's the generational echo of the boomers.

You're attacking the messenger. I hope you trust Kotlikoff. He wrote a good book about this.

>He is an economic adviser for the Democratic Presidential candidate Mike Gravel.

Not to mention authoring econ 101 books for students.

This is the book I read my senior year in college for my keystone economics class. The professor extensively studies the American social security system, and the entire class was based on mathematically proving what he had already done, basically showing that the pay-as-you-go system is retarded. The book is frightening.

https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Generational-Storm-Americas-Economic/dp/0262612089/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467265807&sr=8-1&keywords=The+coming+generational+storm

Did the baby boomers remotely pay enough into social security to finance their own retirement? Or did they ignore the obvious implications of their own demographic wave and leave the bill to the following generation? And if the answer is yes/no, then why was this book written in 2003?

http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Generational-Storm-Americas-Economic/dp/0262612089/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452662817&sr=8-1&keywords=the+coming+generational+storm

Are you just seeking to be contrarian? I cannot tell. This is the "conservative" sub-reddit.

The programs you speak of are unconstitutional (illegal), violate federalism, and are contrary to liberty.

Your supposedly deregulated banks are nothing of the sort. We have a central bank and fiat currency - a plank in the communist manifesto.

I happen to have lived in NZ and Canada, in addition to the US, and I want nothing to do with collectivist (imposed) medicine. Regarding Sweden, you would do well to read "The Dark Side of the Welfare State", which includes a commentary and interview with Sven Larson, a Swedish economist. He has also written a book by that same title.

You present a false dichotomy, as though people who promote individualist pride, in the absence of government handouts, do not want the individual "to make something of himself." Of course they do, and they see the handouts as impediments to progress.

Go ahead and deny the social security and medicare components all you want - not that a military empire isn't contributing as well. Larry Kotlikoff is perhaps the nation's foremost expert on unfunded liabilities and generational accounting, and I recommend The Coming Generational Storm if you want to look into that further.