This, exactly. Boomer hippies were all about "sex, drugs, and rock and roll." And as they got older, they watched their friends OD or burn out or just get tired of it and settle down, and when they sold out they actually got a decent price for it. And so they say, "ah, progressivism might sound fun when you're young, but you'll grow out of it, like we did."

Millennial progressivism is a different thing entirely. Here in the US (the article is about Australia, but the trends are similar), our progressive movement focused on healthcare. Some journos even commented on how it was strange that all these young, healthy people were rallying around that. It's because we understand that we're all walking on a tightrope over a fucking abyss and all it takes is one thing going wrong and everything will go to shit and you'll be left begging for scraps on the sidewalk, because there is no safety net, because society doesn't take care of anybody. It's a sort of mentality that hasn't really been seen since people lived through the Depression. And we're hardly going to get less concerned with healthcare as we get older.

I don't see my friends burning out on sex, drugs, and rock and roll. I see my friends burning out on working back-to-back 60's at Amazon. I get older, and I see more and more people working hard, doing everything right, and still getting screwed over by capitalism, in one way or another. And what do you even get for selling out these days? They stiffed the fucking guy who turned in Luigi.

In Australia?