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The Two Biggest Problems of My Generation
Entitlement and impatience.
Each generation faces its challenges. My great-grandparents went through WWII.
My grandparents survived in USSR and went through a significant personal transformation once the regime collapsed in the 1990s. They had to re-learn how to make money, work, and live.
In turn, my parents had struggles of their own: the Internet came along, the global markets appeared, they had to figure out how to build a life in this new world of technology.
If you analyze what the previous generations had to deal with, you’ll see that most of these struggles were external — local wars, one cold war, several economic crises, societal transformations, and so on. They were caused by governments, markets, societal trends, and were dealt with on a collective level.
But when I look at my generation (millennials) — and not just in my home country, but globally — I see that we’re the first people to have a different class of challenges.
They are internal struggles: mental, psychological, emotional.
We’re a generation born into a world of abundance, social media, internet commerce, cheap gadgets, freedom of speech, Google, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and very (very) high-quality porn.