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The Entitlement Generation?
Is This "branding" correct. If so, is it a bad thing?

People are talking about your generation and you might want to know about it!
This article from the Wall Street Journal has attracted a lot of attention. Below are a few links on different sides of the issue and my two cents worth. You can leave a comment at the bottom of the page, people need to know your generation and how you will contribute to the future!











This is a recent issue of Management-Issues
Your generation speaks back at Enterprise 2.0!














A student's thoughts
A Brief Philosophical Background

What Is An Entitlement?

The video nicely lays out a very helpful framework for discussing the issues raised, though may not provide answers by itself. An entitlement is a legal right to a benefit or service, and thus raises basic issues about who deserves what. Such issues are always contentious because most of us want more, rather than less or the same as others. Conflict will ensue if all are so motivated.

I have to say I find the perspective in the two news articles pretty limited. I also sense some real anger in the student response. We should see that broader social forces are at work, and they will inevitably effect your generation differently than others. A lot is changing in our country all at once, not just the attitudes of the incoming generation of college graduates and those that employ them.




On the score of entitlements, your generation might be wondering where entitlements such as social security, health care and basic national security have gone. Doesn't citizenship come with some entitlements? Now more than ever, if you don't get it from your job, you are not getting it, unless you alraedy have it. Perhaps that is why you have been 'branded' Gen-Entitlement!










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Moufarrej,Anne The Entitlement Generation 0 Jul 25 2008, 3:48 AM EDT by Moufarrej,Anne
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Is this branding correct? Is a bad thing?

I will have to say this topic is thought about often. Being married with kids has me questioning all the time
on how and what I am teaching my children will effect them and their children. The descusion is often brought up in many different ways amongst my friends. I think that this branding was named correct.
I feel it started sometime in the 1980s, the demand for a two income household became more and more a necessity and soon the norm. I believe that like a single parent sometimes feels guilty for the split family they have imposed on their child. The same guilt is taken on by the working mother. She feels that by her working her mother and wifey jobs are neglicted and the children suffer. Therefore she feels that she can not discipline, or treat the child in the same manner had she chosen to stay home. With this comes excessive spending usually on items the child just wants and does not need just to make the mother feel better about her lack of being home. Unfortunately the child does not usually come tocare about the true cost of things, all they know is that they want it and mom is going to get it for me just because I want it. I know a family who has three girls. The oldest is 26 years old and has never had to get herself out of a jam because she knows daddy is always there to pull her out and why not she is entitled to just by being his daughter. Now grant it the family is well to do, but now she is 26 and engaged and the father is now training and supporting the son-in-law to be in the family business just so he can support the lifestlye of the daughters, designer clothes, BMW, house, spending allowance and more. It makes me wonder what will happen to the other two daughters as their spending habits are worse than the eldest. All this comes from the fact that people allow their children to belive that they are entitled to everything.
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Anonymous liberty 0 Jan 19 2008, 10:08 PM EST by Anonymous
 
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Here are two problems. How we should describe the change in mindset of the 21st generation, and more specifically, define their concept of liberty.
In the video clip, philosophy of liberty is based on the principle of self-ownership (you own your life and you are responsible for it). People believe that no other person, or groups of persons, owns our life. And to deny this is to imply that another person has a higher claim on your life than you do.
Sense of liberty is stronger and stronger today. We seek liberty from our family, our country and any other parties. All we want is about independence and right to make decisions in our life. However, does liberty really bring no harm to us or is utter liberty good for us?
For no doubt, we have to pay for the cost of what we act. However, if we do not have complete knowledge over some subjects and we dare not make such decisions, then we do have the rights to voluntarily seek for being taken over by other parties. why not?

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Anonymous Incoming 0 Jan 18 2008, 2:28 PM EST by Anonymous
 
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There seems to be a great issue between generations. The culture and lifestyles within the united states is changing by the minute. The gap between generations is increasing. Its easy to understand why companies and other businesses find it difficult to give what these new employees ask for. A job and all its benefits cannot be handed over in the beginning. An employee must exhibit their talents before employers can trust them. However, today's generation is smarter, faster, stronger, and far more cunning. We are more computer savvy. We see the truth beneath the lies. This was not our complete doing though. We were given a greater education! The youth of the nation is also bringing a new form of communication. Although it shouldn't be a worldwide language, the "AIM" talk can deliver messages much quicker. We are finding more efficient ways to run the world and businesses and that is why we each feel so valuable to every company.

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