This Is Rich…Old People Think We’re Entitled
MSNBC reports that a new study shows that the generation gap in the United States is the largest since the late 60’s. It’s interesting. Apparently young people are all tolerant and not-religous. Old people are all religious and busy. Anyway, the best part of the article/study was this,
Asked to identify where older and younger people differ most, 47 percent said social values and morality. People age 18 to 29 were more likely to report disagreements over lifestyle, views on family, relationships and dating, while older people cited differences in a sense of entitlement. Those in the middle-age groups also often pointed to a difference in manners.
Yes, we young people are entitled. I have such a sense of entitlement, that’s why I carry my AARP card with me everywhere for the discounts and the raging sense of entitlement.
*dials down sarcasm*
I’ll admit America’s younger generations are spoiled the internet, lightning fast information responses. I mean what did people do before Lexis and iPhones (which I don’t have yet). You know writing a letter might as well be the Pony Express compared to e-mail. Still, impressively we can live without such luxuries. Younger americans are still joining the Peace Corps and Luddite AmeriCorps projects. Just because we’re reading on a Kindle, doesn’t mean we can’t live without Starbucks and cheap airfare. We’ll deal and we’re adaptable, I mean just look at how quickly we picked up the iPod with that strange clickwheel contraption.
On the other hand, old people just can’t live without their Medicare and Social Security. They just won’t shut up about it. Why should they? After all, they invented it. What I love most about this quote is that the generation(s) that basically built or inherited and expanded upon entitlements are shocked, SHOCKED that their children and grandchildren have a sense of entitlement.
Sure they may be talking about luxuries and maybe demeanor but you have to admit there’s a certain amount of irony in the creators of entitlements, expanders of entitlements, blockers of entitlement reform, remarking on a differential sense of entitlement between the generations.
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