Exactly. Too many young people today have it way too easy and think it always has been and always will be and they never have to lift a finger. A draft, or at least the possibility that they might be drafted, might make some of them aware of just how much those who have gone before them have paid for what they now enjoy.
MAny of them are working several jobs to pay college bills. Many are saddled with college debt that will take a decade or more to pay off. With housing prices the way they are these days, few can afford a home (at least on the West or East coasts). So, they have a few electronic gadgets. Why does that earn your contempt?
What do you do with your time to be able to say that young people have it "too easy"? Do you work more than one job? Or are you retired?
That's only the case if they're living with Mom and Dad and not working, or their parents are footing the entire bill for college, and the kid doesn't care if he graduates or not. Either way, it is enabling behavior by the parents that allow this perpetual childhood.
If they want to live at home, they either need to be in college or working full time. I'm not even going to say they need to pay rent; that's between them and their parents. But I WILL say that maybe folks need to get out of the attitude that parents need to foot the entire bill for a college education. Let the kids take out loans, with the parents co-signing. Maybe this will require them to go to a state school for a couple of years and transfer to a bigger name school later. Maybe the parents take out the loans for the first two years of the expensive school and let the kid pick up the last two years. Whatever the plan is, the young person needs to be responsible for his or her own college education. There would be a lot less partying and a lot more seriousness about actually learning something.