Klassen: Young go-getters give the lie to ‘entitlement generation’ myth – Calgary Herald
October 19, 2015
If there’s one fact that generally holds true over time and place, it’s that the older generation thinks the younger one is taking us to hell in a handbasket, and the younger one thinks it’s saving us from it.
There’s a point in life when one moves from player to bystander, operant to observer, or at least understands that the torch is at some stage of being passed. I think it’s fair to say by the sheer variance in opinion, and the strength of those convictions, that there is a values review going on as we speak.
What do those entitled, cafe-squatting, snap-chatting, self-righteous millennials know about how the world works anyway, asks cliched crusty old broad? Here’s a snapshot of some initiatives started in Calgary by the so-called lazy generation.
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