I would disagree Ordie.
or rather we seem to be not quite on the same page. it feels like, starting around the time of the civil rights movement that a great number of Americans somehow started believing that if they wanted something better, all they had to do was kvetch about it. The generations before them would dig in and make it happen.
Westward expansion, same thing. It was primarily fueled by people who were willing to get 'stuck in' and work hard to make the life they wanted for themselves. Today most Americans my age or younger seem to think that they should be able to achieve the status and wealth of a Jobs or Gates WITHOUT doing the work, without the brilliance of creating the computer that was accessable to the masses... without having worked hard to create an operating system that made them easy to use (though Gates was NOT, of course, above beg borrowing or stealing as additional resources became available). Working their tuscas developing their inital products, getting tem to market, growing the company overall and keeping from taking off in a wrong direction whenever possible.
It may not have been all day in the fields the way it was in more Agricultural times, but most of the people in the top earnings spots did work their buts off for it. Todays youth? they seem to think there is a magic wand or handshake or something that will get them all of that without their having to work.
Techinically it is. Its called inheritence. However, all the present generation seems to be inheriting is a sense of privilage without being willing to pay for it.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
or rather we seem to be not quite on the same page. it feels like, starting around the time of the civil rights movement that a great number of Americans somehow started believing that if they wanted something better, all they had to do was kvetch about it. The generations before them would dig in and make it happen.
Westward expansion, same thing. It was primarily fueled by people who were willing to get 'stuck in' and work hard to make the life they wanted for themselves. Today most Americans my age or younger seem to think that they should be able to achieve the status and wealth of a Jobs or Gates WITHOUT doing the work, without the brilliance of creating the computer that was accessable to the masses... without having worked hard to create an operating system that made them easy to use (though Gates was NOT, of course, above beg borrowing or stealing as additional resources became available). Working their tuscas developing their inital products, getting tem to market, growing the company overall and keeping from taking off in a wrong direction whenever possible.
It may not have been all day in the fields the way it was in more Agricultural times, but most of the people in the top earnings spots did work their buts off for it. Todays youth? they seem to think there is a magic wand or handshake or something that will get them all of that without their having to work.
Techinically it is. Its called inheritence. However, all the present generation seems to be inheriting is a sense of privilage without being willing to pay for it.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children