I think self entitlement is more of a maturity thing. Every generation seems to be more spoiled than the last, so it always seems as if they're being selfish, narcissistic and generally unaware. Perhaps the volume of those traits has grown, possibly due to the population having grown. Every decade has their lazy self-entitled bunch. The ones that feel they can change the world just by being.
I know I feel pretty self-entitled, but not in the sense that the world owes me anything (it doesn't, I asked) but moreso the fact that I owe myself more than I'm giving. I'm typically a pretty lazy person and the only person that's going to give me a chance to succeed is myself. As I get older, I'm slowly turning over my outlook and realizing I don't want to be at the bottom for my whole life. It's not that I'm lazy at work, don't get me wrong, I work very hard. I just don't expose any ambition to move up the ladder. Call it lazy, call it complacency. Either way. Things will change as we grow, mature and get older.
Idiocracy had it right; the stupid people are breeding far more rapidly than the intelligent ones. That's where the real problem is.
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