Jayson’s article for usatoday.com is entitled “Who’s feeling stressed? Young adults, new survey shows.” In this article, Jayson details a variety of reasons cited by millenials for why they feel stressed by their current living circumstances. These reasons, of course, are primarily economic. And the effects of economic struggle for millenials, particularly those in their post-college years, are dovetailed by still other psychological effects (e.g. extreme anxiety or depression), stemming from the socio-economic circumstances in which they find themselves; where they had been promised a career and stability for all their hard work in school but find no employment in a broken economy; where they feel tremendous pressure to succeed and ‘make
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For Mill, education ultimately gives society the capacity to produce members knowledgeable enough to know how to fulfill the greater good. And because one’s promoting the greatest happiness of all is essential to the betterment and advancement of society, any hinderance to this—such as unemployment, or poor education to deal with the complexities of the practical world, for that matter—kills the ability of society to further increase its capacities to fulfill the greatest happiness of its members. More elaborately put, Mill writes …show more content…
But what would have to be more unsettling is the fact that the greater happiness is not able to be promoted by today’s educated millenials, because they are limited by a broken economy. Thus the progress of civilization, in the respect of making everyone happier in their lives, has to come to a grinding halt in Mill’s view. --------------------------I think that Mill’s utilitarianism is a bit too general of a theory by which to analyze today’s society in concrete detail. But I think it does force us to question the kinds of policies, practices, and governance structures which uphold an economy that hinder millenials from finding employment (with or without degree). In Mill’s view—these would have to be vice on the collective evolution, or fulfillment of the greater good, given the unhappiness they create and their potential to limit happiness, or the potential for it, even
For Mill, education ultimately gives society the capacity to produce members knowledgeable enough to know how to fulfill the greater good. And because one’s promoting the greatest happiness of all is essential to the betterment and advancement of society, any hinderance to this—such as unemployment, or poor education to deal with the complexities of the practical world, for that matter—kills the ability of society to further increase its capacities to fulfill the greatest happiness of its members. More elaborately put, Mill writes …show more content…
But what would have to be more unsettling is the fact that the greater happiness is not able to be promoted by today’s educated millenials, because they are limited by a broken economy. Thus the progress of civilization, in the respect of making everyone happier in their lives, has to come to a grinding halt in Mill’s view. --------------------------I think that Mill’s utilitarianism is a bit too general of a theory by which to analyze today’s society in concrete detail. But I think it does force us to question the kinds of policies, practices, and governance structures which uphold an economy that hinder millenials from finding employment (with or without degree). In Mill’s view—these would have to be vice on the collective evolution, or fulfillment of the greater good, given the unhappiness they create and their potential to limit happiness, or the potential for it, even