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personally i see it as less age related, the ability to break away from the capitalist-work-consume model, and more as an ability to not depend on capital or to lessen that dependence, but then the problem with my theory is this is looking next to impossible. You need to have groups of people in order to create the environment for this, in a way that spurns the temptation to return to the older way of dealing with things. The only reason the current model continues to be dominant is that people simply don't know anything else anymore, and all people are more or less isolated by their need to make money.

Not every adult has attachments to society's institutions and expectations, adolescents often just buy into the ways of their parents in order to not feel disconnected and fit in. I do agree with you though, that adolescents and younger have less skin in the game, and are more nihilistically opened to alternatives.