When people blame our Deep State diploma mills, I have one question...
Where were the parents?
And then once they’ve reached adulthood and can see that what they want conflicts mightily with life in Realville, it’s the responsibility of young adult to suck it up and get with the program until said young adult has been with the employer long enough to be valued. And then Gen Z can be cut some slack. If Z still wants/needs it.
Note to Gen Zers with issues: Some people actually enjoy working for a living. Not necessarily the mundane job, the disappointing salary, or the coworkers, but the challenge to deliver excellence in everything you do.
Try it, young’uns. You might find you like it.
Watch an episode of "Landman"...with Ashley and daughter Ainsley. You'll see it.
The parents were working in the 2 working parent model that the state fostered to keep wages low for business.
Abortion actually is of the most benefit to businesses and the State. Interesting vhow this too has been sold as a right of women
Kids from this generation would benefit enormously from a trip to Japan. Let them experience Japan’s surreal levels of cleanliness, order, and safety and then ask them why they think those things exist there and not here. It’s all about society-wide respect, personal responsibility, and a sense of deep shame for failing at respect or responsibility.
I don’t think the U.S. has ever achieved quite the extraordinary orderliness of Japanese society, but it used to have perhaps 80% of it while also enjoying a sense of personal freedom that the Japanese lack. We used to have a much cleaner, safer, and more respectful society, along with legendary American ingenuity. The Left has now thoroughly crushed much of that, by making society cruder, more self-centered, and dumber, while pumping individuals up with false self-worth and discouraging individual effort. There are still flashes of the past in extraordinary people like Elon Musk, but for every Elon we unfortunately now have millions of people who devalue knowledge, effort, and drive. The relentless focus on “identity” has destroyed so many in this country. We’ve created a generation (or two, or three) who think they’re God’s gift to the world, yet are actually totally useless.
“Where were the parents?”
They were applauding that their idiot kid got into college, and applauded even further when their idiot kid graduated with higher grades than even they knew they deserved. They were simply happy their idiot kid had a college degree. Of course, later, they were dismayed their idiot kid only got worse and their job prospects sucked.