>>They are a half-step from slavery.
We’re all a half-step from slavery, my friend. They are just better adapted to it.
As for living your life fully: a rural person says that an urban person is living in a rat maze, scrambling for cheese. An urban person says that the rural person is wasting their life digging in the dirt for subsistence. Both look at the suburban person with disdain, and the suburban person looks back at them with the same feelings. Living a full life is what you want it to be and not what society tells you it is and certainly not what someone who chose a different path says it is.
The millenials didn’t create this world they find themselves in. They didn’t create anything and that is their biggest flaw. But, they did adapt to it fairly well.
The only real problem is that they don’t know how to make the wheels turn in this technological society. They can build a web site, but they can’t make a turbine spin to generate the electricity. My generation (the late boomers and post-boomers) are the ones keeping the lights on, and we can’t find anyone with the intelligence and the desire to replace us. They all want to be our boss, but none of them are willing to sweat or get dirty. When a 65 year old co-worker retires, we have to replace him with a 45 year old because no one younger has the skill set.
So, when my generation dies, the lights will go out and the water will stop flowing, but I’ll be dead and then its their problem.
Maybe we all are a half-step toward slavery.
Some of us are fighting the next step.
Too bad about you.