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human
I think the idea that today's youth are all "entitled" is completely bogus CMV

All the time I hear people say that young people are "entitled" and lazy. What is the evidence for this? Young people today volunteer more and graduate college more than the previous generations. They take internships with no money so that someday they can hope to get a paying job. They indebt themselves thousands of dollars and go to graduate school and work their asses off so that they *might* get a job in their field.

I'd also like to argue that young people under 18 *are* entitled to a healthy home environment with basic necessities. And young people over 18 are entitled to believe that if they work hard that they will eventually earn a living wage.

I'm not saying that no young people are spoiled and lazy. There are spoiled and lazy people in every generation. Why is our generation (i.e. the millennial generation) being singled out?
gpt
The entitlement comes from expecting the same things as the previous generation. The boomers are an economic anomaly, riding off the waves of post war prosperity while rest of the world suffered. Europe was in ruins, slowly recovering and many parts of Asia were still developing. Minority groups were disfranchised. There was no globalization or competition like today.  

The extremely high standards of living the boomers had with relative ease did not continue as America faced similar problems as rest of the world, and the world became smaller. The American youth today now face the same problems of unemployment and competition as the rest of the world from Spain to Korea. We're just not that special anymore. An average student who went to an average college, studying a fluff major could still find a high paying job with great benefits, live in a nice house and support a family of four. Many youths today are shocked after graduating and facing the real world that this simply isn't the reality anymore, thus the accusations of being "entitled". 

But if it makes you feel better, the previous generation was just as lazy and entitled, just a lot luckier.