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Not all young people are awful. That being said, some of them are pretty terrible.

Who hasn’t read an article about how millennials are despicable people? (Millennials are in the generation of people born in 1980 or after, which includes myself.) According to many, they’re selfish, they’re lazy, they’re entitled little brats who will never be able to care for themselves and will depend on their parents until the day they die. In some cases this is true.

Our desire as a society to ensure that our children have it better than we ever did may have backfired. When kids always get ever...