I would beg to differ on that one. I know plenty of ‘Millennials’ that are quite motivated - one of them is under 26, has a house he’s paid off with his own earnings, has a paid off recent truck, a motorcycle collection that’s paid off, an offroad rig that’s paid off and a new Mustang that he’s paying off on accelerated payments, to give just one example.
I saw just about as many annoying useless kids growing up in LA in the 80s-90s as I do now, they’re just more visible and vocal these days due to communications improvements. :P
I should mention that I was kind of one of those kids that you couldn’t get much of a rise out of no matter what you did to me. But then my dad was and is an entitled malicious narcissist, soooo....
LOL!! I grew up in the 50's, and was the baby of the family, so I got away with far more than my siblings did. I thought I knew it all too when I was a teenager. What my mother told me went in one ear, and out the other, but when I became a mother at 19, reality set in, and I woke up to what responsibility is really all about. My mother used to say that the older us kids got, the bigger the problems. And back then I never understood why she couldn't go to sleep unless all of us were back in the house. When I had my own kids, I totally understood where she was coming from. I think because neither of my sons have children, they have no idea how much a parent worries about them, no matter how old they are.