Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.
The last people with any ideas are young people.
I am ever hopeful that there are generations of young Chinese people who are really thinking about the future and what kind of society they want.
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.
When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.
In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.
Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.
My parents started Party Pieces the same year I was born, so I have grown up with their entrepreneurial way of thinking, which, to me, became the norm.
