When is Enough ,Enough?

[Buffalo Bob]

Originally Posted by mooby

The issue I have with your generation is implying millennials are lazy or entitled when wages just aren't what they used to be.

I could even give you my long winded take on just that alone. I will just explain where us old people come from as I am getting my yearly gout attack in my wrist and it even hurts to type. First, the overly ambitious and those that enjoy physical activity are not going to get lazy no matter what. It is the person who is opposite of that will go down the lazy or entitled road if afforded the opportunity. The advance of technology can lead to laziness, I will explain that one first.

I will just give things on how I see them compared to then and now. I was born in 1961, into blue collar lineage. 1968 I am 7 years old, most places had 5 TV channels, there wasn't a lot of programming geared toward children and that was back when dad controlled the remote anyway. That is how you have a bunch of baby boomers like me who remember sporting events that happened when they were as young as 5. So sitting around watching TV for long hours did not happen. You went outside and played army, cowboys and Indians, rode bikes, played sports. There weren't many options to tempt kids who leaned toward being lazy other than maybe books, puzzles, and board games. None of those options available for the lazy kid were available to be done while he should be doing chores or studying. Today you have the internet, video games, and hand held devices where you can spend hours a time doing nothing constructive. Probably you would have just as many lazy kids in my day as today if we had modern technology.

End of part 1, that was elementary school. Will get to High School and the work place differences after I ice my wrist, take more Advil and pick up some groceries I ordered to go. They will shop for you and put them in your trunk for an extra $1.95, I wish they would deliver.

That was a good example of modern technology causing laziness. I ordered my groceries on line, saving shopping with a painful wrist. In the old days I would have had to nut up and do it myself. So instead of in a grocery store I am on the Warpath.