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If I understand correctly, this research shows that young people are more entitled than older people. It does not show that young people now are more entitled t
by basseq 9y ago
If I understand correctly, this research shows that young people are more entitled than older people. It does not show that young people now are more entitled than young people in previous decades: that a 50-year-old was as entitled when he or she was 25.
This gives me a great excuse to trot out my favorite collection of headlines and quotes:
Young people: the “latter-day cult of individualism; the worship of the brazen calf of the Self.” (1907)
Young people: those for whom “the phrase to make a living could have absolutely no meaning”. (1968)
The “Me Decade”. (Baby boomers in the ’70s)
The Now Generation? Slackers? (Generation X)
The Not-Me Generation? (1980)
The Video Generation of “preening narcissists who have to document every banal moment with their cutting-edge communications technology”. (1985)
The “entitlement” of Millennials is the same entitlement that plagued their fathers and grandfathers. It's young people in the workforce. Some are idiots, some are limited by idiot managers. Everyone wants more responsibility, and no one wants to wait and get there.
- maxxxxx 9y agoThe Romans already complained about their youth.
- praptak 9y agoA much earlier recorded example: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001112875700300210?journalCode=cadb http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0011128757003002...
- basseq 9y agoRelated: a study from 2010 on narcissism published in Perspectives on Psychological Science. First, we show that when new data on narcissism are folded into preexisting meta-analytic data, there is no increase in narcissism in college students over the last few decades. Second, we show, in contrast, that age changes in narcissism are both replicable and comparatively large in comparison to generational changes in narcissism. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020091/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020091/ From this great Atlantic article, who has more good citations from decades past: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/me-generation-time/315151/ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/me-gene...