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(Whether you agree with him or not, Michael Roberts's blog is amazingly well-researched, elegantly written and argued, and refreshed with new content on a continual basis. It should be bookmarked by anybody trying to figure out what is happening economically.)
I am part of the lucky generation. I am a member of that cohort of people born between 1946 and 1965, the baby boomer generation. We are lucky because we came into the world in countries of advanced capitalism at a time when there was unprecedented economic growth, near ‘full employment’, relative low inequality of wealth and income and strongish labour movements able to extract concessions from Capital on labour rights, a welfare state, universal health and education, public housing.
full: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2015/03/05/the-lucky-generation/
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