You’re 70, I’m 57. Most of our working years occurred during a golden era for workers.

When I graduated from university, anyone who wanted to could just walk into a career-path job. More, if you didn’t want a full-time job because you wanted to pursue other interests, you could actually live off a civilized part-time job.

Why do you think so many young people accept long, unpaid internships — internships that replaced what were full-time, salaried jobs when I was young?

They take those rip-off positions because they have no other choice — because they are desperate and these jobs offer their only chance to get a shot at an actual career and a life where they can afford to raise kids.

If you knew the shitty conditions that young people work under today, how much they scrabble just to get pathetic jobs we would have turned our noses up at, you’d never have written this.