Reports issued by the World Economic Forum, a major meeting of the global capitalist elites, indicate that this global ruling class is very worried about the growing inequality resulting from the operation of their system, and especially worried about the younger generation who they refer to as a "lost generation".
It’s an interesting paradox for an organization to see the greatest threat to its ideological and social power being “the future of the youth” when it has already written off the present generation as “lost.” However, this is a view shared not only by the World Economic Forum but, increasingly, by other powerful institutions creating something of an echo chamber through the mainstream media.They have written off the "lost generation" because they are fully aware that their system cannot solve the crises that capitalism is causing: increasing costs of energy and other resources needed to fuel their growth system due to the depletion of readily and cheaply accessible resources, the destabilizing (and costly) effects on the climate caused by the use of fossil fuels, and the steadily increasing concentration of wealth and power in fewer hands. They can only respond with police state methods of surveillance and violence against dissenters. There is a lesson here for the world's 99 Percent: if we limit our resistance to traditional peaceful methods such as candlelight marches, we will inevitably lose the struggle for our very survival.