Or, as they say, hindsight is 20&#x2F;20.<p>Concepts like exponential change and globalization certainly weren&#x27;t mainstream in the 80s when I was a child.  In fact, I&#x27;d bet that most adults at the time still worked at the same company, in the same town, for most of their adult life.  Companies at the time were still providing pensions and health care and middle class salaries, and employees (owners, bosses, and workers) generally all still worked in the same place.<p>It is silly in hindsight, yes.  We were quite naive. But, I think you&#x27;re being overly harsh (or maybe I&#x27;m just too sensitive).  Many of us assumed that changes would happen linearly, not exponentially, and that we would live out our lives differently, but mostly similar to our parents.<p>Hopefully, those under 30 today have been better trained to be highly adaptive. However, at a certain point, even the most well-trained Human will reach an adaptive limit.