Now, Millennials, if I may make bold to ask, as I asked the generally dumbfounded punk rockers of my high school's smoking area: What do you believe in? No, what do you really believe in, that you will not change your mind about the first time the tides turn and you start getting all those job offers you've been bitching about? (It's coming someday, there won't be too many immortals among the Baby Boomers. But maybe by then many of you will have moved on from wanting to perpetuate the traditions of American business culture?) Many of you seem to hate fat people; is that because they personify waste and needless excess, and the grossest end of the spectrum of self-destructiveness? Or is it just an aesthetic thing? Are you really anti-waste? Could you become the "Efficient Generation?" Many of you are sensitive too; "empathic," that's a word I've heard a fair number of you use. Can you teach us how to be humanely efficient? I hope you don't have in mind to make humanity efficient, though. I have a negative feeling (Gen X here, sorry) that it'll never happen, or only after a horrible Dark Age has set is so well as to seem inescapable. There is talk about a massive and swiftly to be implemented third Industrial Revolution in the works, with everything to be produced in automated robotic factories, or else in 3D printers scattered among We The People. What do you guys thing about an addition to the Bill of Rights, a la the 2nd Amendment, allowing fully functional computer hardware to be privately owned without restriction? What about the distinction between conventional and quantum computers, as it looks like they may be around the corner. Is there dignity in work? Is there (potentially, even) dignity in anything else? Is dignity that important? I ask these questions in light of what may turn out to be an age of more leisure time than most people not named Inge or Jens, or not born after 1995, are generally accustomed to. Some, I would even say many of you, seem to be learning a lot about how to make humane, efficient use of free time. Possibly lots of it. I think this is important. This is something people have not really thought much about cultivating since hunter-gatherer times, or sometimes on long ocean voyages. It is exciting or at least interesting, to think about humanity recovering this lost aspect of its heritage. Something about self-management of some of those tendencies we tend to let run away with us. We don't know what to do with our hands when there's no forced labor or conquest "just because it was there." A good practical philosophy of hobbies could go a long way toward saving us. Just my rambly two cents worth. Downvote away!