Dear Millennials, Our Avocado Toast Is Prosperity
29-year-old journalist Charlotte Alter recently tweeted that “people our age have never experienced American prosperity in our adult lives” and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez echoed the same sentiments in Charlotte’s recent piece on her in Time Magazine.
The statements of the two young women are indicative of a subset of millennials entirely out of touch with and ungrateful for the privileges of modern American society. Millennials get a bad rap when it comes to their level of gratitude and comments like these provide justification for those that feel millennials are out of touch with reality. In the past, a disconnection from reality merited institutionalization. Now it seems that being disconnected from reality and outwardly denouncing the facts earns you a seat in Congress.