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Re:The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials i... by pc86 on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:14AM (#13579531)
Which makes the "FYIGM" mindset all the more dangerous. I've seen plenty of people even on HN say some version of "well it was tough when I was younger but it all worked out so we shouldn't change things to my detriment now"
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Re:The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials i... by xapata on Monday February 06, 2017 @12:58PM (#13582097)
It's like hazing. "Pay your dues" is just going through initiation.

One of my favorites was hearing my professor say, "Now that I have tenure, I think it's a wonderful system!" He had been complaining about the tenure system as capricious, foolish, etc. for a while. He's a great guy, so it's not that he changed his mind, exactly. He knew all his past criticism was still relevant, but he was acknowledging his strong disincentive to fight the system.

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