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I want to begin this episode with a quote.

A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like.

I am referring not to the standard false promises

that children are always given about how the world is fair

or how those who work hard shall be rewarded.

But to a particular generational promise given to those who were

children in the 50s, 60s, 70s, or 80s, one that was never quite articulated as a

promise but rather as a set of assumptions about what our

adult world would be like.

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