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ENTITLEMENT IS DESTROYING SOCIETY — When Did Everyone Start Thinking They Deserve Everything?

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Channel: Mike Martins · 2017 · People & Blogs

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“What I really want to do in life is bring people together.”
— Mike Martins

After putting out my video on the Top 10 Reasons Why I Left Vancouver, there was one point that seemed to strike a nerve with a lot of people: #6 — ENTITLEMENT.

The comments kept coming back to it, so I wanted to make an entire video discussing what I mean by entitlement and why I think it's becoming such a problem.

I'm talking about the attitude that says: I'm entitled to this. I deserve special treatment. The rules don't apply to me. Someone else should provide what I want, even if I haven't worked for it.

In this video I read a comment that really got me thinking about how society changed from one generation to another. Did parents who grew up with less try to give their children everything they never had? Did discipline change? Did television and consumer culture teach people that happiness comes from constantly buying things? Did parents begin substituting money and material possessions for time, attention and love?

I'm not saying I have all the answers. I'm putting the question out there because after leaving Vancouver for a small town, I've noticed a completely different atmosphere. It made me wonder whether I had simply become accustomed to certain behaviours after living in the city for so long.

This also ties directly into why I got involved with board games, RPGs, Magic, Pokémon and tabletop gaming. I wanted a business where people actually came together, sat across a table from one another, talked, laughed, competed and interacted as human beings.

That's the conversation I want to have here:

Where does entitlement come from? Is it getting worse? Is it generational? Is it connected to consumerism, parenting, class, technology or something else entirely?

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