The biggest difference between these two eras – and this is the thing that will be our downfall – is that we are now a nation of consumers instead of producers...

Poster Comment:

Eric Hoffer wrote The True Believer. He was a working class philosopher. He said that during the 1930s, the WPA would land somewhere with 100s of men who had so many skills that they could take blueprints and make whatever the building was without much supervisions. Maybe not with the millennials and their degrees in gender studies.