Alot of the parents of young people today are over 40 The over 40s spoiled the under 40s with lack of discipline. Why create the problem and then complain about it?

The over 40s complain about all the labor saving and entertainment devices that young people "overuse" today. Things they never had as children. So automatically these things are whats to blame for the condition of today's youth.

They like to use the fact that they had to do without these things as a matter of pride because they got by with less and are "better" for it. Hence the materialistically "poor" child in the third world country is better than any geriatric by that reasoning.

Its funny how we praise successful people and then complain about the effects of that success.

 

well i'm 24 and we had everything we ever wanted or needed growing up. my dad being a hay broker he didn't cut us too much slack though and i'm not talking about the round bales either. 90% small square bales loading and unloading by hand. I think that most of the lazy *** kids come from parents that could care less what there children are doing and use the tv computer or video game as a baby sitter instead of putting them to learning something useful in life.

 

i think all generations say stuff like this. shoot ill probably say the same thing when im forty. i would say i was somewhat spoiled as a kid. but i also had to work for things. i learned the importance of saving money and how to spend it on things i needed and things i truly wanted not just immediate desires.

 

hauling hay every day growing up really didnt cut us any slack if we wanted it though we had to work for it. but it's created a good *** work ethic where i aint afraid to jump in with both feet.

 

I'm 19. I live on my own(well with my Girlfriend, whom i half way support too), have a pretty nice truck, and a couple little cool toys and i pay for it all by myself.... Kids my age all the time say "damn it must be nice" like this **** just fell in my lap or something and that pisses me off. i tell every single one of them " yea it is nice, get a job and work your *** off like i do and you could have the same ****." instead of working they have always just sat around mommy and daddies house with their hands out. and another thing that pisses me off is when ppl call me "Mr. Money bags" like i don't work for my money or something. i've been wishing that someting major would happen for a year or 2 and all the power would stop working. ppl would have to grow and hunt their own food, split wood in the summer just to stay a little warm in the winter. And maybe these punks would see what it's really like to work for something. all the kids that try to talk me down for having nice stuff i tell them " yea... well we'll see where you are when mommy and daddy aren't around to give you money anymore or cook your food for you...."

 

Nothing more to it than the fact that we live in a consumeristic society. If you truly want to be free, sell all the **** you all own and live without it. Then you can blame no one.


I have to say of all the things on that list, the one I'd miss the most aside from cell phone is the microwave ... I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have the ability to heat up leftovers at 9:30 at night after a hard-*** day.

 

Microwave? Its up there. I'll be more than happy to start my truck up and use the exhaust to cook my ramen noodles. Just GIVE ME MY PLAYSTATION!