While it\u2019s difficult to imagine how any parent can choose business over their kids, you have to sympathise with the anguish of the patriarch too. Witnessing a sense of entitlement in your own children must be painful, made more so by the knowledge that if they\u2019re spoilt, it\u2019s because you spoilt them.<\/p>\n
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In one anecdote from The Atlantic article, James recounts a meeting with Rupert\u2019s lawyer, attended by his father, during which the lawyer asked \u201cwithering\u201d questions and referred to James and his sisters as \u201cwhite, privileged, multibillionaire trust-fund babies\u201d. As James tells it, he soon realised that Rupert, silent in the corner, was texting the lawyer contemporaneously, telling the lawyer what to say.<\/p>\n
Everywhere you look you see bitter battles for succession; frustrated attempts by a younger generation to wrest power from their elders, and outrage by the elders at the disrespect of those they consider their inferiors, at least in terms of wisdom and experience.<\/p>\n
In November, former US vice president Kamala Harris will release a memoir entitled 107 Days, which is famously the short time she had to establish herself as a presidential candidate against Donald Trump in the 2024 race. In an extract published this week<\/a>, Harris addresses the only thing devastated Democrats (and the rest of us) want to know: why didn\u2019t someone in a position of power, like her, pressure Joe Biden to step aside earlier? Why was he allowed to hang on as an increasingly doddery candidate as the country marched towards electoral disaster?<\/p>\n Harris writes that the mantra among Democrats was, \u201cIt\u2019s Joe and Jill\u2019s decision\u201d, a reference to the president and his wife.<\/p>\n Loading<\/p>\n \u201cIn retrospect, I think it was recklessness,\u201d she continues. \u201cThis wasn\u2019t a choice that should have been left to an individual\u2019s ego, an individual\u2019s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.\u201d<\/p>\n In Nepal, young people are rioting<\/a> against the government, following the imposition of a ban on social media apps \u2013 which, among other things, cut off Nepalis from their loved ones who work abroad due to a lack of economic opportunity at home. After police met protesters with deadly force, the protesters began burning buildings and the prime minister was forced to resign.<\/p>\n In one news photograph of one group of protesters, some apparently in school uniforms, a boy is holding up a handwritten sign which reads, \u201cOK Boomer, Time\u2019s Up!\u201d<\/p>\n In Australia, relations between the generations are mostly amicable, notwithstanding an uptick in disputes over inheritances<\/a>, and a problem with intergenerational inequality so bad that, as tax academic Bob Breunig says, \u201cthe intergenerational contract has lost its balance\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n