I too remember this verbatim from early Xer days. It was also in a Boomer song about how that generation would change the world.

Couldn’t we agree we’ve all been in too many wars?

I actually think this will work out quite nicely. One generation “creates wealth”, which actually is just a lot of debt, which generates a lot of foreclosures and homeless people who then need the next generation of public service workers to help ‘em out. And the wealth is still there available to be taxed, it is just…