Entitlement In The Younger Generation

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Entitlement is the greatest problem facing today’s generation and should be fixed by educating parents of the importance of giving criticism to their children and teaching the children great responsibility and good work habits that may influence their decisions later on in their lives. Major problems of today’s generation are laziness, disrespectfulness, and self entitlement. Laziness is the quality of being unwilling to work or use energy. Disrespectfulness is the quality of being disrespectful. Self entitlement is when one believes that they have a right to something. There are many names for today’s generation. For example, the “me, me, me” generation or the millennials.
The Me, Me, Me Generation is a generation that feels as though they do not have to do anything. Their idea of “at least I showed up” is one that affects our government dramatically. Therefore, many people are on welfare because they are unemployed, dropouts that cannot find a job. Welfare should be for the people who are unemployed because of a major injury, that cannot find a job, and cannot support themselves or their family.
“I got part of a programming degree before the bottom fell out of the tech industry and all of an AS in electrical design that cost me $60k in debt.
I got laid off 4 months ago. Because I refused to work 60+ hour weeks, I can’t get my old managers to call me back. As a 5-year industry veteran with no industry references, I can’t get hiring managers to call me back.
I’ve gone bankrupt to escape credit cards, but student loans are for life.
I have an ER bill I can’t pay, an untreated skin condition I can’t see anyone about, wisdom teeth coming in sideways I can’t get corrected, and asthma I treat with coffee to save the inhaler for emerg...

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...ects our education, government, and America as a whole. To solve this problem we can teach children moral values. Moral values are something they can always keep with them. We need to teach them to be themselves but to always remember to work hard and that the world owes you nothing. However your life turns out, you did that to yourself and no one else is responsible for getting you out of a problem.

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