All right. So we have a little bit of time left for our people to have an office hours.

And you know office hours for our tightrope listeners is our weekly segment. We try to take some topic and focus in on it.

Sometimes you've suggested those topics. Sometimes other people have. Sometimes Doc West and I come up with it on our own. You never know.

So today we have collectively decided we should talk about this question of millennials and

their discontent with democracy. And apparently some new study shows that millennials are

particularly concerned about democracy, about society, where we are now, and that millennials are particularly concerned about democracy, about society,

where we are now, and that they are particularly lacking in the assets of previous generations at this age.

So wealth, inequality of wealth and income is very significant, and that millennials make up about 25% of the U.S. population,

but they only have 3% of the wealth. Baby boomers, by contrast, have closer to 25% at this same point.

So they're fearful about debt. They're fearful about not being able to take care of their families and unemployment and staying on their parents' couches forever.

And so, you know, we wanted to talk a bit about what is the nature of this discontent,

but also, I guess, Cornell, I want to ask you, you know, is it democracy they're discontented

with?

Is it, you know, corruption that's actually the source of that? You know, how should we think about this discontented with? Is it, you know, corruption that that's actually the source of that?

You know, how should we think about this discontent and its relationship?

No, I think you raise important question, though, because oftentimes the discontent has to do with something that's very positive.

It's the corruption that you talked about. It's the greed.

It's the lies. It's the downright crimes. It's the lack of accountability. It's the impunity

that they're discontented about. That's a positive discontent. Yeah. You know what I mean?

You don't want people to be contented with lives and contented with

corruption and so forth. But the disturbing factor is that if that discontent leads toward

a full-fledged detachment and apathy, then there's no way of engaging that nightmarous reality and authorizing an alternative to it.

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