Actually, it used to be fairly rare for young college grads not to have worked steadily through high school and at least part-time through college.
Now, in combination with government funding for college and more affluent ‘helicopter’ parents, it’s pretty regular for kids to have done nothing more than a make-work internship or two into their early or mid-20’s. The cluelessness about employment and general sense of entitlement are markedly different than a generation or two ago.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they allow disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children now are tyrants,not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when eleders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
-Plato
“I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond
words… When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of
elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and
impatient of restraint” (Hesiod, 8th century BC).