Why does the Generation born after the Baby Boomers feel that they are "entitled"?

No person is entitled to anything. Hard work, education, saving money, investing money, respecting the law, respecting your elders, respecting your nation, respecting the Flag. Earlier generations suffered worst than those who are rebelling by occupying Wall Street. There are 3 things that Americans don't want disturbed. Money, Women, Property. Mess with those 3 and you will be punished.|||spoilt brats|||Actually the baby boomers had it relatively easy compared with the generation after them (financially speaking).





The children of the baby boomers have to work significantly more to make the equivalent amount of money. This seems surprising, but is an undisputed fact.|||Only Fox News claims that is what they feel.





Get your news from a more reliable source.|||I am one of that generation. I do not feel "entitled" to anything more than what the Constitution and the laws of this country promise. You haven't posed this question as much of a question though--you've posed it as more of an argument in favor of one opinion. So, let me pose an actual question to you:





There are people who are born into dirt poor neighborhoods. They don't ask to be born there any more than other people ask to get born into rich ones.





Their mothers don't get adequate nutrition because they can't afford it. The parents work menial jobs to the point of exhaustion, but never seem to make ends meet. The children physically develop poorly because they cannot afford healthcare. They have learning disabilities that arise from never having a healthy and stimulating environment as infants or as children. They do poorly in school because their town doesn't have good funding, and doesn't provide adequate teachers or materials. They can't afford college, and no matter how hard they work, they can't get their grades up enough to get there anyway. They can't afford to own a car, either, which severely limits their ability to find work, or to find a way out of the poor area.





There are people who are born into rich neighborhoods. Their families are well educated, and take every step possible to ensure that their child has the best start. The parents work, but they make fair wages and therefore have time to spend time with their children, helping them develop interests, and supporting those interests (music lessons, sports). They make sure the children are well fed, have good teachers, and they can afford to send the kids to college. The kids get well paying jobs due to their hard-earned credentials, eventually enter a stable relationship, and start having kids of their own.








If no person is entitled to anything, then the rich are no more entitled to their success than the poor are to their failures. Right?