Where's The Sanity,What Happenened To The Hippie Generation?

I feel like I'm going insane sometime when I think about what was lost when my generation(b.1950)cut their hair,put on jacket and tie and sneaked their way into the hearts and minds of the capitalists who had the goal of increased return on investment tattooed to their chest in place of their heart.Were they playing a game during college by presenting themselves as something different than their parents who they thought of as lame and irrelevant in the "Times Are Changing "sixties.Well,the times didn't change for the vast majority of my generation.They actually made things worse and developed a selfishness never dreamed of by our parents.The parents in my community were primarily union workers for the city.They were cops,firemen,transit workers,sanitation employees and occasional small business owners.They came home from WWII and wanted to raise their families and provide a better education for their kids like any other generation.They weren't materialistic and understood that their unions were important because it provided protection from unemployment and low wages.They were content with less but they also wanted our economic system to be fair for all citizens.They lived through the great depression and realized the managers of capital have no mercy or patience for workers but only wanted their investments to remain as profitable as the year before at the least.

My generation talked the talk but couldn't walk the walk. As soon as they graduated,they started to toe the line in the halls of capital and stopped dreaming of a society that really could be different and equitable.As I look around today,we still have the same economic and social problems we had in 1971.Our poverty levels have remained the same(maybe increased) and 71% of our citizens, with families, earn under $50,000 a year.Our economic situation is worse as union percentages have fallen from 33% to under 10%. Citizens fight over increased taxes,not because their against public unions,because they don't earn enough money from the "rate of return" capitalists to pay them anymore.The public union members are earning what they private employees should, but don't ,because the managers of capital only care about that return rate instead of the health of their employees.My generation,who were educated in the late sixties and early seventies,rose up the ladder in the halls of capital.They received the benefits of all the decisions against the workers and became the consuming promoters for the next generation to follow.They brought the darkness we have today where companies look to the East(instead of our own municipalities) for investment and fortunes.They still listen to the music greats of the sixties who now charge hundreds of dollars to see their concerts and somehow believe they are part of some cultural change in our society.They are part of the 35% in this country who only want their investment portfolio to grow regardless of its damage to the American worker.