That's a good point. Perhaps the decline of work ethics reset every time hard times roll around. If there is less to go around, people have to work harder jus

That's a good point. Perhaps the decline of work ethics reset every time hard times roll around. If there is less to go around, people have to work harder just to maintain. Therefore any generations growing up during wartime or depression/recession may return to a previous level of motivation, and as a result of themselves going without, spoil their children in return, starting another cycle of complaints about spoiled children.