What a relief it was to discover that Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi was a giant about - face for the franchise, using The Empire Strikes Back as
a structural launching point before demolishing the whole structure of the franchise to take serious narrative risks.
It now takes the average worker until age 30 to earn the national median salary; young workers in 1980 reached that
point in their careers at age 26, according to a 2013 Georgetown University study, «Failure to
Launch:
Structural Shift and the New Lost Generation.