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Originally Posted by thinkxingu
Before we go on condemning today's youth for being entitled, lazy, etc. I would like to get two things clear:
1. Whatever today's youth is is a reflection of the parenting and culture before them.
2. The ability to achieve what our parents and grandparents did is just simply not the same. Anyone who says so is either ignorant or being willfully ignorant.
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Think: as usual, you are spot on in your assessment. The 20 and 30-somethings who are now espousing "fairness", "income equality" and according to some news stories, believe Socialism is the way to go, are the little kids from years ago who were told on the soccer field that "everyone gets a trophy"; "no one loses"; and "we don't keep score". I witnessed that when my kids, (now mid 20's), were playing sports at a young age. That philosophy of "everything has to be fair and no one loses" has come home to roost in a big way.
While I always enjoyed Joe Rogan as a stand-up comedian, he's gone a little off the rails as a Social Commentator. However, he did make a lot of sense in one of his broadcasts where he stated, in effect, we don't have income inequality, we have effort inequality. If you work multiple jobs or take overtime or extra shifts, you
should make more money. If you're really smart and invent some new technology, you
should make gobs of money. If you sit on your a__ and think the world owes you a living, you
should be poor.
When I was in my 20's, I remember my father, (WW II generation), saying, "I'm glad I'm not just starting out like you right now..." Now, almost 40 years later, I have said those same words to my kids.