Are we spoiled?

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Ever since i was a kid ive been told that my generation are spoiled brats. And when i think about it maybe we are in a way. Take me for instance. Do i consider instant gratification to be a birthright? I suppose i do. I know a lot of things i take for granted are luxuries in many countries. Do i stop to think about that? Not really no. Do i stomp off in a huff if i can't get my way? No. Im not 12 years old anymore. But i wonder have we become spoiled in the western world?
 
honestly, we just expect more cos we were born with a higher standard of living.
personally i think its a bad thing.
if all technology was to crash tomoro - we wouldnt not survive but our grandparents generation would do very well.

we've become spoiled by technology and the abundance of resources.
 
This thread is potentially quite controversial and I do not mean to offend anyone.

FWIW I deal with younger people a lot. Your general behaviours and expectations have led me to label you the 'Click To Buy' Generation. My colleagues, most of whom are older than myself, have adopted this term. This is of course anecdote and not data.
 
http://www.ihav.net/forums/showthread.php?t=95810&highlight=growing+soft
 
Out of curiosity, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Can't quite figure out what you're getting at here.
 
Apologies. I meant there was an expectation that everything must happen now, to suit the end-user, at the time the end-user wants it, and with a minimum of effort.

To my mind this is not a good thing.
 
This whole entire topic is one of this current generations angst ridden mindset and the fact that most of them aren't comfortable in their own skin.

Spoiled? Hell yes. Everything is a Google away.. where you can read for a quick scan and find a bit that supports your argument without actually having to read or study anything in depth. How many times does this come up on the forum. Time and time again. People post on topics they really haven't got any understanding of. Yet they've heard some sound byte op-ed piece taken it as hard news and run with it... lol... don't even get me started.
 
First of all, I'd like for someone to clearly define "the current generation." The way I've heard it generally used it seems to encompass people from the age bracket of 6 to 30 years old. That's one heck of a "generation" to be talking about. Alternatively, it's "everyone I don't like today," which is hardly news.



Replace "post on" with "talk about" and you'll see that the phenomenon is hardly unique to "the current generation."
 
Hmmm,

my day job is as a university lecturer. There is much talk about the supposed sense of entitlement of younger folks. In my own personal expeience it is just as prevelant in baby boomers as it is in the 17 to 18 year olds that rock up every year.

paul
 
at least our generation has the ability to check different view points via google and not just have to believe the only news source available.

This is a pretty good explanation of our generation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y
 
erm...why is that a bad thing? Why should I be satisfied with an inferior level of service?

The only reason my generation has an expectation for things to happen immediately is because it is possible for things to happen immediately. It makes no sense to fill in a ten page form when I can click a single button instead. There is no sense in waiting for six months for a package to be delivered when I can get it next day.

It's like the generations before yours mocking you for expecting to servive the flu.
 
Honestly as someone who has worked with all sorts of the public for years, i can confidently say that the likelihood of someone being entitled and throwing a tantrum goes up drastically with age. I don't know if this generation is just more understanding or if it's really an age thing.
The hypocrisy that causes the older generations to passive-aggresively call themselves humble, hard workers as opposed to the youngers so often seems to work the same way too.
 
I've been taught how to fish for survival, work a rather large garden, build a cabin using a hacksaw, a hammer, and nails, how to construct a piping and drainage system, sew, what clothes/footware to use for real outdoors cold/wet (which will last and work well), wilderness foods, trapping, how to tough out cold, heat, infectious bugs, how to make moonshine, etc etc etc.

I've learned to be pretty tough and survive with the basics when I need to do so.
Also my cast iron frying pan and my leather boots are two of my most valued possessions. Nuts to my xbox.
Mind you my grandpa grew up in the depression and is a pretty resourceful individual just like his father. He taught me a lot of skills and knowledge. That my friends is true power.

You may be able to fight but I can catch a deer using a bit of string and a swiss army knife ... and fight.

Did I mention country boy can survive?
 
Yeah this was the point is was getting at.
it seems the older generation is a lot more knowledgable with this stuff.
my grandfather can engineer anything out of bits of rubbish.
he can build a fully functioning filtration system with sticks and stones.
that generations is more resourceful with natural applications because they had to be.
 
Half of them can't spell either. Horses for courses. Being savvy with the tech of your time does not make you spoiled. He can break down a carbureted car to the bolts, we can navigate a conversation like this with all the social, graofftopictical, and technological basics involved. I'm sure each of us has tricks, skills and understandings that would blow our grandparents' minds in addition to the everyday stuff we need to navigate in a space-age world.
 
Example, angry Anonymous-ites used the intarwebs to locate, report and distribute the personal information of a person who cooked a cat alive using google and a sliver of skyline from a window in a single photograph. For shiggles.
And that's just fun time, when you compare it to the hacktivism they've been blamed for all over the world. It's like a collection of kids who one day decided they wanted to be freakin Mossad.
 
yes, but those skills are no longer necessary to our survival. I don't need to know how to kill a deer with a fork, I don't need to know how to build a hut out of cockroach dung. Those were the practical skills of the past. They're useful today only in terms of historical curiosity.
 
I used to hack out of boredom and the need for an intellectual challenge which school wasn't providing.



And knowledge is power. In my environment of choice (the Canadian wilderness) I have much more power than many people. Also many of the skills I was taught I believe are things that should never be forgotten. They were once and sometimes still are very necessary to basic human living. If you've never been to a northern Canadian community where fishing, hunting, trapping, wilderness skills, etc. are still necessary you really should go sometime. Living in the city gives you a very skewed view of the world.
 
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