Recipe for revolution

Within the context of the standards and complexities of fully modern 21st century life (high standards of housing, transportation, leisure, culture, etc.) relatively privileged people (say, the wealth/income top ten or twenty percent in the Anglo countries and Europe, the wealth/income top three or five percent in Third World countries) can afford the expense of it.

I’ve often wondered how the rest feel as they strain (and usually fail) to participate in the affluenza, but I had the thought that they weren’t all so dissatisfied simply because they weren’t imbued with the same standards.

But these days, young people in all societies have smartphones and thus access to the internet through which affluenza standards are front-and-center, in-your-face. Relatively expensive cars, clothing, culture.

Many of them will get a phone and some sneakers, but little else.

It’s a recipe for revolution.