The Whole Life

By Tom Murphy,
RedwoodAge.com

Boomers should be the last ones to complain about how younger people don't listen. It was the boomers who didn't listen about Vietnam, marijuana, premarital sex, segregation, health food and so many other things. "Never trust anyone over 30," they said. Well, now workers under 30 - even those under 43 - don't listen to the boomers, and there's some concern that might hurt businesses as the more experienced workers retire. I tend to think life will go on, perhaps in a new and better way, as younger workers find their own ways of doing things. Companies that obsess about passing on old procedures won't change, and change is good.

PS: A week ago, we speculated that oil prices will fall as speculators start to get cold feet. Since then, they've fallen about 5 percent. Look for much steeper drops in the months ahead. We can't say what oil's really worth right now, but it clearly isn't $138 a barrel.