Anyone besides me think "I want to speak to your manager!" might be the result of

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5. I think it is the result (maybe inevitable) of...

(For the record, I am in my early 60's, and this may play in to how I view this.)

The way I see it is this:

As a society, we are essentially a nation of rich spoiled brats.

We, as a society, are like the eldest child of a family that built a dynasty---a big factory, or whatever. We just see the world as "this is how it's always been and will always be--MINE!".

Our earlier generations built all this infrastructure and investments...roads, schools, vaccines, postal service, hospitals, oil wells, bridges, electrification, coal mines, etc...and paid off all these HUGE bills...Revolutionary War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc.

And WE (meaning from early adulthood all the way up to just slightly older than me) were just handed it on a silver platter. We were told to maintain and continue building, and enjoy all this bounty.

But somewhere we lost sight of what our duties were and only remembered what we are "entitled" to. And like that spoiled brat, we are usually insufferable.