"Entitled Millennial Workers of the World, Unite!"

"for the moment, let's stipulate that the fundamental facts about my generation, as established through countless media accounts, are true — that everyone born between 1980 and 1995 was raised in an upper-middle-class home, where the combination of “participation trophies” and helicopter parenting fostered an unprecedented sense of entitlement, leading us all to major in trigger-warning studies instead of innovative engineering, then move to either New York City, Washington, D.C., or San Francisco, where we’ve driven middle managers mad with our audacious demands.

We take these truths to be self-evident, all millennials are created entitled. But one can concede those premises without lamenting them. In fact, I contend that they’re actually worth celebrating...

From the standpoint of a manager tasked with enforcing the prevailing norms of the American workplace, entitled millennials are indeed a scourge. But from the perspective of society as a whole, Generation Y’s unparalleled entitlement may actually be desirable. Few would deny that the entitlement felt by the Freedom Riders or suffragettes ultimately redounded to their nation’s benefit. The question, then, is whether the realization of millennials’ workplace demands — via organized political struggle — would improve or degrade American life. An examination of those demands — as articulated by the generation’s detractors — reveals the virtues of coddling the young."

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/entitled-millennial-workers-of-the-world-unite.html

So. Here. For. This.

I think our entitlement is so exciting and is a demand that our world live up to its potential. There is so much energy there and a willingness to point out the inconsistencies.