Just Saying | Hong Kong’s angry youth are rebellious, not stupid
Yonden Lhatoo argues that it’s easy to scoff at and judge the city’s agitated youth, but they have genuine grievances and are the future, after all
Spare a sympathetic thought for the youth of Hong Kong these days. I’m not being sarcastic, despite my track record of calling them out over this city’s mollycoddling culture that often inflates their sense of entitlement.
Even among this endangered species of optimists, expectations are low. They are looking at the prospect of working for 10-25 years to own the roof over their heads and, even then, they don’t expect to have savings to pay for anything above HK$4 million.
And speaking of aiming low, they aspire to double their average living space to 270 sq ft.
There’s something inherently sad about all this, considering that this is Hong Kong, not some sub-Saharan refugee centre.
