So the claim is, roughly, “Americans are getting less adventurous / more risk averse” ? Hm, I don't know. The one trend I can think of that I agree indicates lower value on adventure is in the risks parents allow their kids to take...
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FWIW, I feel more confident looking at these phenomena in clusters that are presumably causal than in actually placing the arrows. For example, "safetyism" & risk-aversion might both be largely the result of sheltered childhoods, though they seem like they might cause each other
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When I look at all this stuff, I see what feels viscerally like a big "CAUTION!" bubble eating youth culture, but I have a *lot* of questions about how it arose, why it persists, whether it's central to the trajectory of our culture or just sort of a weird temporary stop, etc.
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Some findings that would shift my opinion: > younger people are increasingly optimistic about the future (or: optimism is holding stable) > though entrepreneurialism is down, growth in self-defined roles in larger orgs > "moonshot" grant programs have lots of quality applicants
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