a tendency, developed over the last five years, that I’ve come to call “errand paralysis.”
I'm solidly Gen X, but I certainly recognize this tendency in myself. What forces are at play which lead people to treat this as a generational trait? Who benefits?
the stuff that wouldn’t make my job easier or my work better
High priority = job and work.
But those who believe that the future must inevitably be socialist tend to be very old, or very marginal to the real political discourse of their societies.
and then there are the millennials...