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I've noticed a fair amount of old people acting entitled. Many people also give them an excuse for their bad behavior or demanding attitudes, just because they are old. This may start around age 65 or so, but really takes hold in the 70s.
Do you think this is acceptable? It seems a lot of people think it's fine, just because they are old.
They will say they have earned the "right" - but do you really know they've "earned" it? And is selfishness, rudeness, and a demanding attitude ever a "right"?
Outside of family, I cannot see why any older person has any claim on someone younger having to do anything special for them, outside of basic human respect you give to someone at any age.
People often seem to think old people deserve more help; yet I've seen many well-off & capable old people taking advantage of those less well-off who are younger, and it's deemed acceptable because of their ages. There are things like senior discounts also, given with the assumption that retirement shrinks your budget, yet lot of old people are more comfortably situated than the younger generations who struggle to make ends meet in this economy.
There is also the notion that older people are more wise. After encountering so many prejudiced, racist, bigoted, sexist, trite, and just plain stupid old people, I have trouble buying this. It seems to me wisdom & maturity is not an automatic development with age, and a fair amount of young people show more insight than some old people. But many old people have a sense of entitlement & importance because of this idea - their thoughts & words & perspectives & stories are supposed to be given more weight than other people's, no matter how cliche, dull or warped.
What is your take on this? Do we generally treat old people fairly, or do they get a lot of unjust favoritism?
Do you see their attitudes & behaviors reflecting entitlement towards this favoritism?
In what ways are the old people in your life acting entitled. I am 70 years old and I don't think I feel I am entitled, except for SS which I have paid into for all of my working life. The other oldsters I know don't seem to feel entitled either. Many of us do volunteer work, for instance. How about some examples.
You can find bigoted, biased, disagreeable people in every age group.
I've noticed a fair amount of old people acting entitled. Many people also give them an excuse for their bad behavior or demanding attitudes, just because they are old. This may start around age 65 or so, but really takes hold in the 70s.
nah, you're wrong. it starts much earlier than that, like in the 40s-50s. there are entitled, arrogant scum buckets of all ages though. the trust fund babies, the overweight middle-aged SUV soccer moms, jaded & divorced businessmen, insufferable elderly people, oblivious $10 coffee drinking lumberjack hipsters, etc.
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I don't know. I just wish they'd stop bashing the millennial generation because they call us 'entitled' too and it bugs the crap out of me.
they're just miserable and wanting to project their misery on others. believe me, their millennial offspring are probably having wet dreams about the situation where they might need to pull the plug.
When I see or hear older people acting entitled or belittling other people, I just assume that they have been that way their whole entire lives. I don't attribute that to any specific age group. There are positively rancid personalities at every age. Thankfully, I have found most people to be nice and polite.
When I see or hear older people acting entitled or belittling other people, I just assume that they have been that way their whole entire lives. I don't attribute that to any specific age group. There are positively rancid personalities at every age. Thankfully, I have found most people to be nice and polite.
When I see or hear older people acting entitled or belittling other people, I just assume that they have been that way their whole entire lives. I don't attribute that to any specific age group. There are positively rancid personalities at every age. Thankfully, I have found most people to be nice and polite.
Very true. Perhaps we should stop putting people into age group boxes and just see people as individuals.
Very true. Perhaps we should stop putting people into age group boxes and just see people as individuals.
This ^ is a good note on which to close this dinosaur thread which was recently resurrected. Everyone, please note that bashing any group of people is rude and just wrong. The thread does not belong in the Psychology forum nor in any other City-Data forum. .
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