The problem with millennials
I had a realization today. We always hear how millennials are all entitled because their parents told them they were special and could have anything they wanted. What I realizes is that every generation is like this. The difference is when my father's parents told him he was special and could achieve anything, his basis for achievement was what they had. They were immigrants who lived pretty modestly and gave everything they had for him. He grew up in a time where a single educated person could earn enough money to support a family and a nicer lifestyle than his parents comparatively easily. So his generation was told the same as this generation, but had a world in place that could deliver on that.
People in their 20s now, were told the same things, but their standard for success is way higher because their parents had it all so much easier. They could afford an education and then get a job that paid well. So they were told they could do anything, by parents who believed this and then got out into a world that is no longer like this. It's hard to get a good job. And what passes for a good job can't support a family of 4 comfortably. They're basically set up to fail. And then judged for failing.
It's a recent phenomenon in the US for people to have a lower standard of living than their parents. And it's a world that was created by their parents. It's that older generation who feels entitled. They feel like they deserve everything because they've worked so hard, when in comparison, they didn't have to do as much to get what they have. The grossest part is they feel entitled to have successful children and then get mad when their kids aren't as successful as they expected them to be.
People in their 20s now, were told the same things, but their standard for success is way higher because their parents had it all so much easier. They could afford an education and then get a job that paid well. So they were told they could do anything, by parents who believed this and then got out into a world that is no longer like this. It's hard to get a good job. And what passes for a good job can't support a family of 4 comfortably. They're basically set up to fail. And then judged for failing.
It's a recent phenomenon in the US for people to have a lower standard of living than their parents. And it's a world that was created by their parents. It's that older generation who feels entitled. They feel like they deserve everything because they've worked so hard, when in comparison, they didn't have to do as much to get what they have. The grossest part is they feel entitled to have successful children and then get mad when their kids aren't as successful as they expected them to be.