They have been raised on freebies from welfare-—this is a continuation of that, IMO.
No, it’s more insidious than entitlement mentality.
Lowered Expectations is far far more insidious in my view than entitlement mentality.
The most entitlement mentality person will run into people who will tell them Get Bent, you aren’t entitled to anything during their lives...
Lowered Expectations is far more insidious because it convinces folks who do have natural talent that can be nurtured with work and effort into success that they have actually put in the work to be successful, by telling them they are doing great their entire lives when they are not really putting any real effort in at all.
So you wind up with people who as adults THINK they are putting in great effort and the world rapidly slaps them into reality totally destroying their view of self.
Entitlement minded people know they are lazy, they think they are owed for nothing... lowered expectations folks grow to believe their modest efforts are excellent, and that’s far more dangerous.. because when they finally get into the real world and find out their efforts aren’t remotely as great as they thought they were, the can go very bitter for being sold a false bill of sale rather and decide well I did my best and got nowhere, why bother.. when in fact most never do their best because they were never challenged to do their best.