Spoiled children and a country that has less to offer them then it did to generations before…..double whammy.

From what we’ve seen with our kids and their friends, who are now in their late 20’s, is that, the “success rate,” i.e.–achieving your dreams in life–is about 50/50–even with the very best education money can buy, and other advantages. Dont’ know if that ratio will become better or worse as time goes on.

Whether young people consider themselves to be “spoiled,” “entitled,” or anything else, won’t make much difference in the real world. In the final analysis, as all things in life, regardless of whom or what is at “fault,” you either get what you want in life, or you don’t, and young people will find there are few exceptions.

Legal marijuana will employ many.

I really don’t know much about what other parents do, or how other kids have ended up. What I do know is that the article’s list of “where did we go wrong” is nothing like what my dear ex-wife and I did as parents, nor nothing like what my kids experienced growing up. They’re in their mid-20’s now, and for the most part, self-sufficient and have been for a few years. The list reminds me of kids I knew growing up. I’m not sure the generation referenced is all that different from mine. I can’t say with any certainty that kids that grew up like that are failures as adults any more than kids who didn’t are successes. I have two kids that grew up in the same house and couldn’t be more different. I suspect a whole lot of it comes from inside the kid, what they’re born with. It’s more a parent’s job not to screw it up.

I think part of this is just due to society and America and simply because parent’s could. Some of the depression era parents or WW2 folks or America booming after WW2 because all of Europe’s manufacturing was bombed and destroyed made the 50s – 90s great for America. It’s the situation of the rest of the world and the parents living through a tougher time. Since the parents had it tough, the kids were sheltered and told they can do/have whatever because the parents could provide a more sheltered / safer life.

I honestly think a lot of this is REALLY out of everyone’s control actually. It’s sorta the luck of the draw of when you graduate, when you live, where you live, etc…

Like some of the kids graduating now, through no fault of their own, they will probably NEVER make more than say someone from 5-10 years ago simply because the economy isn’t as good and the guy 10 years ago is already established in a higher paying/better job than the new guy.

The Chinese/Indian kid works harder because they come from an environment where the competition is tougher/harder or their life is just harder that they don’t want to go back to that.

Sorta like if you play sports and everyone is simply better, you tend to be better too since that’s your training/competition.

The Chinese or Indian immigrant grew up from more humble tougher beginnings and simply wants it more than most native born American.

This pisses off a lot of non-immigrant asian people, but in a few years, these new people would be behind as well probably…however, the difference is that asian families tend to help their kids far more than the typical white person I think so the asians will still be buying up all the nice area homes etc since the parents will help them.

Overall, for most Americans, just based on where they were in standard of living before, inequality, tax laws and all the hands to feed, future prospects would probably be lower than say China which has improved probably the quality of life for more folks (totally guessing here)…assuming they were on a farm with no running water, etc…

Just boils down to how great things were already.