HappySqurriel said:
Last year I felt like punching my 7 year old nephew in the face because, even though he got an XBox 360 with Kinect, a bunch of videogames and his parents were taking them all to Disney World for a winter vacation, he was whining because he didn’t get an iPod Touch for Christmas. Of course, at his age this is (somewhat) expected and you know (or at least hope) he will grow out of it. With that said, when I was working my way through university I was still running into people who had the same entitled attitude towards everything and it really got annoying. I remember sitting in a Sociology class at the beginning of the semester listening to two girls talk about how completely unreasonable one girl's parents were being because they only gave her $1,000 for clothes and that would only pay for a couple of outfits. I don't want to imply that it is typical, but there is a massive number of teenagers and adults who have been spoiled by their parents, have serious entitlement issues, have little/no work ethic and don't see the value in anything.
The worst I ever saw was a women I was fixed up with a couple of years ago ... She was beautiful but at 28 she was living in a condo that was paid for by her parents, driving a car paid for by her parents, and receiving an allowance while complaining that the world was unfair because her English degree didn’t give her a similar income to her brother who was an electrical engineer. |
As I said I would like them to be fake, but I know they're probably not because I know people like that too. My brother's a bit like that at times. It's very annoying.
My friend's step-brother used to get everything he wanted when he was younger (essentially because his parents divorced and they battled over his love with expensive presents). It was to the point that his dad had a "gaming room" built for him, a room just for playing video games in. But he would moan over trivial things, such as having to load the dishwasher (which he got paid to do as well!). He seems to have grown up a bit now though, he has a job and seems to earn his stuff.
Fortunately, the majority of people I know seem to have grown out of it by their early twenties at least.
As for $1000 for clothes, I don't think I earn that in a month. I have a modest job at my University and I also make a little bit of cash on the side from buying and selling SNES games. If someone gave me $1000 I would go hyper. I could never spend it all on clothes, I probably spend <$250 on clothes in a year. Complaining over that amount of money seems ludicrous.
