Signals Question of the Day -22

[Signals]

What about your generation is different than the generation before?

 

[Yeagermeister]

What about your generation is different than the generation before?

Having to have a real education to make a good living.

 

[Hostile]

What about your generation is different than the generation before?

Prayer in school was stopped.

 

[vta]

What about your generation is different than the generation before?

I'm finding my generation pretty immature and self-centered.

 

[Faerluna]

Computers are a part of daily life.

 

[casmith07]

My generation feeds off of instant gratification and has a lack of work ethic. The instant gratification has spread into other areas in life, including relationships, and has made divorce rates and difficulty finding a partner skyrocket.

Fortunately, I'm lucky to not have that problem, but I know many that do.

The lack of work ethic has reduced people in my generation to attempting to live the "celebrity" or "reality TV" lifestyle at a young age without having the money to do so...which in effect again makes dating for many of my friends difficult. If you aren't jet-setting all over the place and wearing expensive designer stuff (almost assuredly at the expense of your credit history) then you are just not eligible.

 

[notherbob]

My generation feeds off of instant gratification and has a lack of work ethic. The instant gratification has spread into other areas in life, including relationships, and has made divorce rates and difficulty finding a partner skyrocket.

Fortunately, I'm lucky to not have that problem, but I know many that do.

The lack of work ethic has reduced people in my generation to attempting to live the "celebrity" or "reality TV" lifestyle at a young age without having the money to do so...which in effect again makes dating for many of my friends difficult. If you aren't jet-setting all over the place and wearing expensive designer stuff (almost assuredly at the expense of your credit history) then you are just not eligible.

What you say is true and troubling and I fear it does not bode well for the future of our country.

I was born in 1939, just before the war and graduated high school in 1957 and I could see change coming more every year away from the more restrictive WW II adults to the less restrictive post Korean war adults. Somewhere along the line our national personality and values changed along with everything else in the country. Somehow things just seem to have gone too far but we can not go back because all the manufacturing jobs are gone.

It became too expensive to manufacture in America because of high costs of everything so the factories moved offshore to cheap land, material and labor.

As we go from a manufacturing economy to a service economy, adjustments will be difficult for a lot longer time to come. Part of the current economic condition is due to the loss of those jobs and they aren't coming back. Get used to it.

We used to create real wealth by making hard goods and exporting them for money but now we import hard goods and create entertainment needs and fill them with diversions and create wealth with virtual soft goods.

Entertaining each other and flipping burgers for each other is the path to the future. However, since the food and drink being fed to the masses makes them sick, this creates economic opportunities for the health care industry and that creates jobs and drives the new economy. All we have to do is choose between becoming a caregiver or a diabetic cancer patient with heart trouble.

The old values of hard work, deferred gratification, thrift and home ownership are no longer seen as the pathway to wealth. We have become consumers instead of producers and I am concerned where this could lead.

Somehow through all of this we have to maintain a positive outlook and hope the new generations will develop ways to successfully cope.

Life is good, anyway.

 

[big dog cowboy]

We have become consumers instead of producers and I am concerned where this could lead.

It seems we are moving further in that direction every day. It's really amazing how things have changed so quickly.

 

[TheKey]

My generation does not find value in knowledge. Facts are ignored in a desperate attempt to win the argument.