The Entitlement Mentality; can the younger generations of poor help themselves?

[mrplunkey]

The disparity between this generations expectations and its work ethic is massive.

There's only one way to bridge the gap -- let's save money by pulling the plug on Mr. Db when he gets sick.

 

[75th]

Parents and the media, imo.

Each generation gets lazier and more complacent. We really havent had to work for anything, and are taught that we deserve way too much.

 

[ceo]

Parents and the media, imo.

Each generation gets lazier and more complacent. We really havent had to work for anything, and are taught that we deserve way too much.

Exactly! I don't get it! Why would any society wish to perpetuate that idea?

 

[PICK3]

I'd appreciate if teh man threw me a bone every once in awhile

no homo!

 

[ceo]

Didn't you get stimulated by Barry's package???

 

[ledhead]

My brother works as a supervisor at a large plant in a pretty impoverished area of the nation. Low wages, high unemployment, low cost of living, high level of laziness area. He's worked at this plant for about 35 years. His plant just a couple weeks ago had to let go of two people. They were both younger people in their 20's. They were let go for repeatedly breaking rules.

One rule is there is no smoking anywhere on the grounds. One kid kept going out to smoke outside the building. He got caught and warned, got caught again and warned, got caught, written up, caught, disciplinary action, caught and finally fired. He was given several chances and kept breaking the rules. Upon getting fired he talked about how there were no other jobs and how unfair the situation was and what was he to do now, etc. The other person was let go under similar circumstances, just a different rule was repeatedly broken. Again, she was given several chances too.

These kids have this entitlement mentality that is so very common today, especially in the younger generations. I'd say around 30 and under it seems, though I've seen many 30+ people display it too.

Are they lazy? Do they feel there should be special rules just for them? Who's responsible for their reasoning? Parents? Government?

You'd think with jobs as scarce as they are, people would do anything to hold on to a good job. Do they even want to work? Can the poor even help themselves, or are they doomed to continue to fail, yet expect to be provided for? After all don't they deserve to be taken care of?

I posted up about something similar to this a couple of weeks ago. Like I said I taught high school social studies for years. Parents are the main culprits to why kids are screwed up and the lawmakers.

There are four types of parents. Authoritarians that micromanage their kids lives and never give them any room to breath and the kids rebel and act like assholes. Second, you have Permissive parents that care about their kids but let the kid manipulate them and press them until they permit the child to do what they want.. low expectations of self-control, no discipline.This type seems to be the most prevalent one.

Then you have Uninvolved parents, that don't give a shit about their kids at all, this is the second most type of parenting that i have encountered. Then you have Authoritative, I'm 40, you are probably somewhat of a cohort of mine, these are probably the type of parents we had. They care about their kids and give them some room to breath, but if they get out of line they tax that ass, very obsolete these days to see this type of parenting, but I'm sure there is some...

That's my opinion to why the youth of today's world is the way it is.

 

[ceo]

I think the permissive parents are definitely the most common. Kids seem to run the roost more and more as the years/decades go by. It's tiring when both parents work all the time and someone else raises the kids, the parents get them after 6pm and are tired from working all day. They give in easily and the kids do what the kids want. Discipline is merely verbal threats that are never carried out, or if they are carried out, never to the extent that was threatened. Kids catch on to this quickly and will extort that weakness naturally at a very young age.

Do you think people are able to outgrow this or figure out the damage and correct it in their own lives later on in life?

 

[cindylou]

raise your hand if you had Authoritarian parents!

 

[PICK3]

raise your hand if you had Authoritarian parents!

 

[javaguru]

raise your hand if you had Authoritarian parents!

Authoritarian=schedule.

Wtf? Life is about authoritarian rule...I have negotiated deadlines with clients and I have never missed one; My mom was pissed about that Thanksgiving.
My parents just expected me to be "responsible." I was always home and playing D&D or World in Flames when I was teen. My job was to do what was expected of me...splitting wood, working the farm.. I did this as a matter of duty...WTF is wrong with you people?