Millenials stand to inherit the most and will wield tremendous political power
That is a narrative, that was used for a quarter century to keep Millenials from revolting/defecting during their teens and 20s and bait them into cooperating as accepting wages that have been stagnant to declining for 40 years, and to some degree I agree, it worked; about half of Millenials were fooled, primarily women, the single career cat ladies in their late 30s to mid 40s in bullshit quota jobs that are currently between hooked on antidepressants, suicide and cat shit eating instant Ramen.
The reality of the matter is that the "great wealth transfer" is realistically 15-20 years away, so when Millenials are in their 50s/60s, and there is no wealth being transferred but mostly debt and liabilities. On the individual level the 4 times re-mortgaged devaluing concrete-wood box of the Boomer including taxes and an illiquid market, and the Boomers in real term deflationary ponzifolios, not to forget the costs to care for and burry the Boomer contrary to send them to the wood to die to be eaten by wildlife. On the political scale, same thing, all the BoomerX is leaving is debt and liabilites, completely uncovered, irrealistic to ever deflate on top of over the past 50 years legislated entitlements and other polity scams based on assumed future productivity, demand and reproduction that never occured. So what Millenials are actually inheriting is a pile of crap with no demand for and political organization that are unable to act, so a failed state and a failed ponziconomy that cannot be reformed, but has to be demolished one or another way.
the sheer misery of a revolt
There won't be a revolution; a revolution requires one of two things at the very least, better the two things — either a broadly accepted and trusted alternative on how to organize and govern a territory leading a majority to self regulate or a large coherent enough group of people able to apply violence that can compete on a territorial scale with the current group having the dominant violence ability and coerce a majority into following their norms.
The first is impossible due to the dead of broadcast media propagandas ability to fabricate conensus on a large scale; there is no single alternative that would be able to gain even 15-20% support after the 2010s. The second is the great unknown. Is any coherent group over the next decade going to be able to convince enough people, and here the young Zoomers and older GenA become more important, to take up arms, conduct targeted terror attacks and assassinations as control territory on a large enough scale to compete with the diminishing recruitment and violence potential of the on average 58 year old field mercenaries of the current state.
The evidence today says no, the violence potential is as fractured and atomized as the trust potential, and extrapolating the current drive toward violence suggests that the future of the western political hemisphere is the same as that of the average failed African state: Uncountable, unstable local, regional and national acting groups that have various degree of influence over territory and people, with the current state still formally existing on paper but its control over the territory and people being heavily limited.
GenX was the last gen that could have turned around the trajectory in the early 10s, by simply not taking the 0% bait, by that crashing the FIAT GDP fetish ponzi-pyramid and refusing to integrate, they as an entire generation fucked that up for good and their punishment is that they are too old, weak and poor to survive state failure, let alone rebuild anything on any scale. For Millenials and Zoomers the realistic way to "turn around" the BoomerX shitshow is pure defection on a local scale, building now the pockets of order to weather the storm of a state that is deterministically going to fail. Those that are still not getting it and are kept docile and content with consumerism and distractions are going to have a very bad time in the 2030s.
