Will Generation Gimme work for the American Dream?

http://www.theabsurdreport.com/2012...ream-eye-opening-insight-into-americas-youth/

unlikely. By the time they're forty they're going to be living in boxes, eating minimally and scraping by.

 

It's why America will crumble under debt, bad parenting.

 

The experience of suffering downward mobility will chasten young people. External reality has a way of doing that.

 

No they won't, they'll still be unemployed, playing video games all day and living in their parents' basements. They'll be just fine, because their parents will take care of all of their bills, provide food and make sure they have everything they could possibly want.

After all, that kind of treatment is what made them into the gimmie generation in the first place.

 

It will be generational suicide, just as it was in Japan. Luckily, we've gotten past that for the most part. Back to hard work and hard studies... don't think Americans are up for it.

 

I don't think young Americans are up to the task. They have been poorly educated. Btw, welcome to PF.

 

I blame the parents, but that's only because I thank mine for my stern upbringing. Thanks, you seem kind!

 

Bad parenting?? More like bad parents since the 80s with their greed and not wanting to pay taxes. That's why our kids have nothing.

 

I wouldn't say that is it in its entirety. It's more about non-political things— raising every kid to be a winner, every kid to get a trophy, and so on.

 

The parents passed through the public school system a generation earlier and they received educations just as poor as their children receive now. This has been going on for two generations.

I'm kind to some people.

 

Yeah, cause every greedy parent needs kids that they could brag were "winners" at everything.

 

I nearly died of laughter after I found out about the inner-workings of the American public education system. Did you know you can't even post class ranks as it humiliates kids too much?

 

Yeah, and I'm sure cutting school funding is the answer.

 

Would call it low self-esteem rather than greed.

 

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There is no answer. The vested financial interests of unionized public employees prevent any effective reform of American public schools. The kids are simply doomed unless their parents can figure out a way to save them.

 

Yep. Losing used to be respected because it built character. Now it is condemned because it crushes self esteem.

The thing is, overcoming a loss is a far more effective method of building a strong, lasting sense of self-esteem than being handed an unearned win.

 

The title confused me a bit, but I see. Is it actually real? This generation of Americans will be less literate?

 

Don't you wish we could outsource education to the Chinese? No unions, no greedy Americans and their standard of living. I'm sure the Chinese could educate our kids better then they make baby food.

 

lemme guess, you're part of the "Gimme" generation?

 

It is very real. Most of the young generation cannot read or write with adequate proficiency to hold down anything other than menial work. Without machines they can't make change. It's really quite sad to realize that the country will be inherited by the ignorant.

 

Kids grow up.

If 80% of the youth really felt like this though, it'd be time to flee the country as we would be about 10 years from becoming a third world hell hole.

 

You could begin with qualified teachers, wherever they come from:

 

I live along the coast of Northern California. It's already a third world country with a class of rich white old folks coupled with large numbers of ignorant and poor Mexicans and Central Americans.

 

Hispanics are that north in California? I visited once and the further north I went the fewer I saw.