The Greatest Generation, the generation of our grand-parents and in some cases our own parents, is revered as the best of the best. They grew up rugged, strong willed, and determined. These are the people who we look up to, the people who we admire, but they are also the people who have laid the ground work for the generation of today. The 21st century has bred a generation of ‘lazy ass holes’. Or at least that’s what we are told.
How do we compare to this generation; how can we compare to this generation? We don’t. Is it because we are inherently lazy due to our high standards of living? Is it because we have been sheltered from the real world; living in a bubble of affluence? Possibly. But what if it’s something else, what if it’s because we look at our parents and grandparents and realize that we can’t compare; we aren’t the “Greatest Generation”.
But that doesn’t explain why kids from other countries, kids who have grown up in the same century as us, are successful. They are succeeding and taking jobs from healthy, young, educated Americans, despite their hardships, their lack of resources, and their limited access to knowledge. Why can’t we, Americans, surpass these people? Maybe it is because this generation is lazy and not motivated. Maybe every negative generalization made towards the young people of today is true.
But there have been slackers in every generation. There have been people who have worked in MacDonalds for years, decades. There are people who don’t want to work and live out of their parent’s basement, but should we base our entire opinion of a generation on this one group?
What if they didn’t go to college but instead learned a trade? Does this make them unsuccessful? Does that mean that they weren’t smart enough for college? What if they dropped out? What if they became an apprentice? What if they learned on the job with no higher education? What if…what if….what if…. These are the things that we look at to determine if someone was successful or not. We ask, “What college did you go to?”, “What did you major in?”, “What’s your degree?” If someone can’t answer those questions, does that make you unsuccessful, even if you make enough to survive and a little extra on the side? So what makes someone successful?
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