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owned our home and had food on table and sent their kids to college does not make us spoiled.

Ok, how about this. Our childhoods were ‘easier’ than our parents’. Not to say better because if my dad was to be believed kids in his day seemed to have a lot more fun than we did in the 50s. A lot of stuff that would have gotten us jailed. He grew up in a small town in Idaho. His younger brother burned down the house because of some experiments with nitroglycerin.

Today, people living in ‘poverty’ in America live like kings compared to the poverty of the 20s and 30s. While there are people hungry, no one needs to be hungry today.

When I say we or I’ll say I, was spoiled, it is only in comparison to the generation that came before. They had to work harder to get what they wanted than I have done. Compared to today’s kids, we had it pretty rough. They are worried about a theoretical climate change, we got to worry about nuclear war. We were expected to have summer and after school jobs. They spend 6 years getting a degree in gender studies and live in their parents’ basements.

Oh well, it’s an age-old complaint—”Today’s kids are soft, weak and rotten”.