The Lazy Generation Summary

In this article by Ross Pomeroy and William Handke, the main idea is The Most Entitled Generation Isn’t Millennials, It’s Baby Boomers. It runs through a basis where the Baby Boomers are the ones who ruined the economy, following the Great Recession. Surviving in a time were economic stability is not guaranteed, Millennials still have to live with many excessive policies that are continuously imposed by lawmakers, the majority of them falling in the Baby Boomer generation. With the concentration on issues that don’t matter as much in the America we are evolving to, such as tax cuts to corporations, the rest of the issues that are directly affecting this age get pushed back constantly. Millennials couldn’t be the ones entitled in a world where the Baby Boomers run every decision on the opposite way of change.
Many of the issues stated in the above article do not directly affect me, seeing that I don’t pay taxes or have the ability to vote yet. However, this does not mean that political issues on a wide scale do not affect me. Already, Gen Z is being labeled as the “The Lazy Generation” and it seems so wrong to me. When do we have the opportunity to be lazy when all we worry about in high school is if we will even be able to pay for university? When do we have time to be sitting around all day when it is no longer a possibility to live on minimum wage as it was in the 1950’s and 60’s? There is no time for us to simply stop. How can we? When lawmakers in elected positions can’t do what’s the best for their people, so we must get involved. When the government is so polarized and the Congress has been the most unproductive in decades, how can we just think “what now?” There is so much criticism given onto the younger generations when every action is scrutinized in a negative light, and all the actions higher up are brushed away as if nothing