Sense of Entitlement (generations, healthcare, high school, compared)
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“Compared to previous generations, recent high-school graduates are more likely to want lots of money and nice things but less likely to say they’re willing to work hard to earn them,” said study author Jean Twenge, a psychologist at San Diego State University, in a statement. “That type of ‘fantasy gap’ is consistent with other studies showing a generational increase in narcissism and entitlement.”
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Oh say it isn't so? Kids today are hardworking and don't want ANYTHING given to them. They want to earn their way through life...And our liberal policies are working.
OP walked 10 miles to school in 5 feet of snow...no doubt.
Nope. My elementary school was a block away from my house. However, the study shows the younger generation are basically worthless and lazy. They want healthcare, childcare, a job, and their retirement given to them, without working for it. You can spin it anyway you want and defend whatever you want. That is called being lazy and it is clearly spelled out in the article.
Of course, you can continue to attack me, or you can attack the points in the article. You can't, of course, because the facts are just that: the facts.
Liberal policies of working as little as possible, high tax rates, giving to people who don't need it, etc has raised this entitlement generation since the 60's. Give me, give me, give me. Its mine and I deserve it. This study is a partial outcome of those philosophies.
Nope. My elementary school was a block away from my house. However, the study shows the younger generation are basically worthless and lazy. They want healthcare, childcare, a job, and their retirement given to them, without working for it. You can spin it anyway you want and defend whatever you want. That is called being lazy and it is clearly spelled out in the article.
Of course, you can continue to attack me, or you can attack the points in the article. You can't, of course, because the facts are just that: the facts.
Liberal policies of working as little as possible, high tax rates, giving to people who don't need it, etc has raised this entitlement generation since the 60's. Give me, give me, give me. Its mine and I deserve it. This study is a partial outcome of those philosophies.
That's what happens with an everyone is a winner and participation trophy/medal attitude. But, also part of the reason is that baby boomer parents, the middle class ones anyway, would give everything to their teenagers and tell them, no don't get a job. You don't want to be flipping burgers the rest of your life, do you? Because that's what will happen if you get a job at McD's! Go to college instead and worry about paying those student loans later. Lo and behold the results. Got a generation that thinks they are entitled to a job because of the degree they have. Doesn't work that way.
Every teenage generation thinks they have the world figured out and are gonna have everything they want. Ask anyone from previous generations that got their first credit cards out of high school on what happened to that whole wanting everything now.
This isn't a liberal thing, this is a being young thing.
Believe me, the kids with the highest sense of entitlement are not from liberal families.
In my experience, don't know the particular politics of people, but it's middle class whites and poor blacks that suffer from an extreme entitlement mentality.
Everything. It is called indoctrination, which begins in kindergarten. 27/7 kids are bombarded with liberalism, from the cartoons they watch to the food they eat, to the education they receive. Liberal freaks wanted a nanny State, well now they have one. This generation will not work, they will become liberal parasites sucking on the teat of the working taxpayer. This is precisely what liberals have striven for all these years: A completely compliant and utterly dependent population of slaves.
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