I'm 29 and I remember when I was about 5, my dad had a remote for the TV. He would hit us with the paper and say 'change the channel'!

 

x 2 on the paper thing, we were his remotes, and beer getters. i am not near 40 yet, i did get to grow up during the "modern" 90's, BUT i still didn't have any of that stuff. my dad could barly afford the house, much less the "covienant" stuff. so i guess i might have know how it was in the "crazy" 70's i bet i had even less then that.....

 

Amen Brother. Now, where'd I leave my Geritol?

 

did you check your shirt pocket

 

No, but now I found my dentures!

 

How bout your other pocket?ha

 

I know I'm only 22 but I've had a much harder life than all the softies that have grown up today. I know how to work instead of just playing a game boy blah blah ba blah.


Its funny how everyone says they want a better life for their children and then complain about the effects this "better life" has had on their children. Should we blame the children for taking advantage of the situation, or should we blame the parents for creating the situation? Or, should we just realize that this is just the nature of the world and not worry about who is to blame? In which case, whats the point of this? Why bother to point out something that most of us are aware of? To garner sympathy by pointing out that you made do with less? I would say that a child in a third world country today is making do with less than you ever had too.

 

I can only afford 1-pocket shirts. I ain't rich!

 

ya i've worked for everything i've wanted and ya i break alot of things on my pickups but i pay for everything i break too. the only problem with that is now i'm in my last semester of college and the farmer i worked for the last year and a half doesn't need my help. and nobody wants to hire a college kid for 4 months? oh well thats my rave i still don't ask for anything i can't pay for though but if you do know anybody around garden city kansas that might be looking for help that would be nice also

 

Some valid points. But overall, kids nowadays have an "entitlement" attitude that some parents just can't say "NO" to. So they take the easy route and give in, instead of making the kid work for luxuries. But, you have to realize for a few decades there the economy was booming and money was easier to come by. We had the stock market boom, the tech boom, the dot-com boom; then things started to slide.

As to the starving kids in Africa, there were millions of them 40-years ago; now there's 100's of millions. That's a whole seperate issue though.