Whenever someone uses the word "entitled", I just hear my mom.

People who participate in and contribute to society are entitled to things. They should have a sufficient wage, safe housing, food and clean water.

If I as a tax-paying, working member of society am not "entitled" to anything, why would I care about the perpetuation of the society?

If I'm not "entitled" to anything, why should I care about anything or anyone at all?

> Whenever someone uses the word "entitled", I just hear my mom.

It's one of those words that can only 1) make people write off your point entirely, or 2) make people immediately hostile.

I fall into the first camp, when I hear someone accuse kids of being 'entitled' I assume there simply isn't anywhere to go from there in terms of discussion.

Maybe some of them are entitled, but a lot of what young people want are things their parents got no problem. They aren't entitled for expecting certain things, or wanting to change society.

Because in the real world, the only transactional relationships you ought to have are ones that explicitly involve money. It's difficult to learn to start to relate to people in a non-transactional manner, but it's necessary to develop genuine relationships.

It's difficult to worry about higher-order emotions when your basic material needs aren't met.

Likewise, if the market price for housing and healthcare is unreasonably high, why would the populace continue to support capitalism?

   > People who participate in and contribute to society are entitled to things. They should have a sufficient wage, safe housing, food and clean water.

This is the /antiwork crowd we're talking about? The ones too emotionally stunted to even crawl out of bed and do anything productive because they've self-diagnosed as depressed/anxiety ridden/whatever?

No they're not entitled to anything. The ones that actually contribute to society are, but a huge chunk of them aren't. Which is fine, but then can't bitch about it and shouldn't expect anything in return. They can go live in the mountains or under a bridge.

Someone has to make you your nuggies at McDonald's homie. It's going to be someone, it might even be you. Half the workers at any McDonald's I've ever been to are elders who should be retired.

The level of isolation you are suffering from is profound and I hope you find a way out of it.

By the next time I bother to go to McDonalds, I'm sure the robots will at least not fuck my order up like the stoners always do. Not sure what the Marxist burger flippers will do now, but since they don't care, I guess I won't either.