The mystical myopic millennial trope is quite popular. It seems to me to be just a reflow of "kids these days" "Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'.

The mystical myopic millennial trope is quite popular. It seems to me to be just a reflow of "kids these days" "Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt." Horace, 20BC But maybe more jaded, I also see a business owner looking to maximize profit and minimize expenses by gas-lighting a bunch of kids into shoveling shit all day for peanuts.