They were not kids a decade ago

Two decades ago

Why is it 20-30 somethings of 40-50 years ago put the world on an immutable path but 20-30 somethings now are stuck with?

If prior 20-30 somethings that "put us on a path" had free agency we do too

Especially when those old 20-30 somethings are now 70-90 somethings

Kids in the 1980s who rolled over in their 20-30s

Who speaks old English and writes like Shakespeare? Social truths die off. So why do we still speak 1970?

It isn't the senile crowd running things anymore. It's 50-60 year old Thiel, Musk, health insurance CEO, crowd.

Professional consumer crowd that's taken the baton and never invented anything of their own. Electric cars and rockets, the internet, and society post-WW2 were originally grandpa's ideas.