[quote=flu][quote=ltsdd]I am also pretty sure 40 years from now, the average adult will be complaining about how the “younger” generation are lazy, ungrateful, and have this sense of entitlement.[/quote]
Yeah, but short of the generation that came before Baby Boomers, I’d say that’s the majority of america right now, including baby boomers.[/quote]
What makes you believe that’s the case? The younger generation has more work cut out for them not because of their lack of motivation and laziness but rather due to the increased in competition both internally, due to population increase, and externally from other countries that only in recent years began to shed itself the effects of decades of wars and colonial rules.
During the 50’s what and who did we really have to compete against? Japan, Russia and Europe were in rebuilding mode after the war. China was still fighting a civil war. Korea was a backward third-world country in the midst of a civil war. India just barely got its independence. Most of the rest of the world were still under colonial rule.
I don’t want to take away the accomplishments of our previous generations. But at the same time let’s not be too harsh and sell the younger generation short, either.
