This article made me want to throttle the author, and I don't even belong to gen y. Where's the bloody downvote button?!?!
Dude, Where's My Job?
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#12So, what makes Gen Y the most entitled generation ever? I'd argue that title goes to the Baby Boomer generation (at least for the time being). They're the generation that decided that, while their parents paid for their education, kids should really pay for theirs (paying for zero educations in their lifetime while each other generation will pay for 1). They're the generation that has decided anything that costs money can be shuttled onto future generations through debt. They're the generation that paid too little in Social Security and Medicare taxes who are gearing up to fight for expanded benefits paid for by their children.
We'll see if Gen Y decides to be as entitled. Yeah, Baby Boomers get annoyed with Gen Y kids who think they know everything when they don't. Most people in my generation think they're a ton smarter than they actually are and think that minimal work should result in great reward. Maybe we're no better than the baby boomers, but I resent this implication that we think the world revolves around us. The baby boomer generation seems to like to forget that part of their success was that they were able to shift burdens onto others (often their children).
I guess I should apologize for how I started off this comment. It was too harsh. I got a little too aggravated by the article and being lectured down to by a generation whose greatest accomplishment was being born in the only industrialized nation not bombed out by WWII and, therefore, had the opportunity to create with barely any competition. OK, I'm still aggravated. I'm sorry.
Most people are hardworking folks and this author is trying to appeal to the few that are probably less hardworking and want to blame society on someone else. It happens all the time - it's those immigrants that are making your life suck and the like.
I think we'd all be better off if we remembered who we are really - not the idealized vision we have of ourselves. Baby Boomers went through a period of pot smoking and being lazy. Before them, dating was the hot button being seen as a waste of time and a disregard for morality. Let's all try to remember that life is a little more universal than this essay would have you believe.
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#13So, what makes Gen Y the most entitled generation ever? I'd argue that title goes to the Baby Boomer generation (at least for the time being). They're the generation that decided that, while their parents paid for their education, kids should really pay for theirs (paying for zero educations in their lifetime while each other generation will pay for 1). They're the generation that has decided anything that costs mone…
So, what makes Gen Y the most entitled generation ever? I'd argue that title goes to the Baby Boomer generation (at least for the time being).
I'd apply your criticism to the generation a half-generation younger than the Greatest Generation, namely the generation born during the birth dearth of the 1930s. (They are largely the parents of the Baby Boom.) The Baby Boom generation paid into the Social Security system to a greater degree than the birth dearth generation did, but will have a substantially higher retirement age.
The demographic facts are reported in reasonably good detail (but pointing to different issues) in Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers.
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#14So, what makes Gen Y the most entitled generation ever? I'd argue that title goes to the Baby Boomer generation (at least for the time being). They're the generation that decided that, while their parents paid for their education, kids should really pay for theirs (paying for zero educations in their lifetime while each other generation will pay for 1). They're the generation that has decided anything that costs mone…
lol! I remember being called all sorts of things in the 70s. But now it's my turn! Damn kids! Get off my lawn! The fun part is you'll get to do it to the next generation.
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#15Same as it ever was. I narrowly miss the Gen Y cut-off, but was popular to bag on my generation's failings when we were first entering the workforce. Whatever.
(Aside: You don't even need a Kindle to spot this author's crutch words. Am I the only one who thought the repeated use of "cohort" was unusual? Dude, where's your thesaurus?)
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#16Google NYC had "afternoon tea"? What does that even mean?
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#17So sick of crap like this. I'm Gen-X and very much remember being called whiny and entitled. We were neither -- no more than any 20-somethings have ever been.
I'm somewhere in between - 32 years old, I guess technically a Gen-Xer. People in a middle class society tend to have a (often false) sense of entitlement. I agree that it's not a generational thing. I think the biggest change that I've seen since I was in, say, grade school, is a move away from interest in the hard sciences and technical disciplines, which may very well lead to greater disillusionment among today's young job seekers in a tough job market.
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#18So, what makes Gen Y the most entitled generation ever? I'd argue that title goes to the Baby Boomer generation (at least for the time being). They're the generation that decided that, while their parents paid for their education, kids should really pay for theirs (paying for zero educations in their lifetime while each other generation will pay for 1). They're the generation that has decided anything that costs mone…
> the only industrialized nation not bombed out by WWII
Switzerland anyone?
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#19Google NYC had "afternoon tea"? What does that even mean?
Tea: a drink prepared by soaking leaves in hot water
Afternoon: a time after midday but before evening.
HTH!
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#20Google NYC had "afternoon tea"? What does that even mean?
Tea is forbidden at Google!? What has the world come to?