{"id":22240,"date":"2013-12-26T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T14:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22240"},"modified":"2014-03-18T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T13:29:57","slug":"qotd-todays-hard-times-versus-the-golden-age-of-economic-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/26\/qotd-todays-hard-times-versus-the-golden-age-of-economic-security\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Today&#8217;s hard times versus the golden age of economic security"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In other words, while it\u2019s true that there are fewer guarantees than there used to be, it\u2019s not true that everyone in the good old days had an easy path to lifetime employment. Those people were always a lucky minority. They still are, if a somewhat smaller one. Most people in the generations before the millennials had to struggle. They were afraid they wouldn\u2019t be able to make it. They, too, were woken up in the wee small hours by their own economic terror. The reason your parents\u2019 lives look so carefree to you? Well, in part because Mommy doesn\u2019t usually tell little Timmy that she\u2019s having night terrors over how to get him outfitted for school if the old minivan finally gives up the ghost. But mostly because all this was taking place when you were 6 years old. And everything adults do looks easy when you\u2019re 6.<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-09-18\/hey-millennials-you-got-a-raw-deal-get-over-it-.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Hey Millennials: You Got a Raw Deal. Get Over It&#8221;, <em>Bloomberg.com<\/em><\/a>, 2013-09-18<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other words, while it\u2019s true that there are fewer guarantees than there used to be, it\u2019s not true that everyone in the good old days had an easy path to lifetime employment. Those people were always a lucky minority. They still are, if a somewhat smaller one. Most people in the generations before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,41],"tags":[374,95,956,45],"class_list":["post-22240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-quotations","tag-children","tag-jobs","tag-millennials","tag-nostalgia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5MI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22244,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240\/revisions\/22244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}