Tim Cook’s Message to 2019 Graduates: ‘My Generation Has Failed You’
I guess I&#x27;m considered a millennial, but messages like this sound like misconceived pandering. Firstly, I don&#x27;t think any generation necessarily &quot;owes&quot; anything to future generations. But, even if we accept the premise, I am the beneficiary of absolutely mind-boggling amounts of technological advancement, culture, progress, infrastructure, science, and on and on and on even just over the course of my own lifetime (approaching 30 years). &quot;Boo hoo, things aren&#x27;t absolutely perfect in every way.&quot; That doesn&#x27;t mean that any generation has &quot;failed&quot; another. Sure, there might be some setbacks and difficult problems to solve or adjust to in the future, but come on. As Steven Pinker has I think convincingly pointed out, things have been reliably getting better for a long time, and even when we think &quot;the world is going to hell&quot;, it simply doesn&#x27;t.<p>Not to mention, there is something extraordinarily presumptuous about the CEO of one tech company thinking he has the standing to either criticize or speak on behalf of literally billions of people.