having spent my high school years just a stones throw from
flint, michigan

during the time when
michael moore’s

roger & me

was released in theatres, i used to hear
this

sort of reasoning all the time:

“Le says he doesn’t see many Chinese, Indian and Vietnamese clients engaging in cosmic questions about their lives in the technology industry. Perhaps that’s because these workers often come from hard-core tech backgrounds such as engineering. Many of them also have a lot riding, culturally, on an industry that was milk and honey for generations of immigrants here, Le says.

“Our parents 20 years ago worked on the assembly line at Apple when the first computer came out,” says Le, who moved from Vietnam when he was 10. Younger generations may find it hard to question or reject what their parents still see as opportunity.”

of course, there are important differences, but the logic leads to the same result – chained to the “line” and blind to new opportunities.

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