I dont know that any generation has it 'better' or 'easier' than the next, I'll settle for 'different' !
You use to be able to buy a house on one income, they wouldn't take the womans income into account because she was likely to become pregnant,.... no such thing as maternity leave, family payments etc etc. the only payment availabe was 'child allowance' a whopping $5 per MONTH for per child, !!! yes, a small house could be bought for less than $40,000 if you looked around, but that didnt make it any easier when the bills came in and your weekly income was the 'average' of $160 per week LOL
i dont like 80% of the current self absorbed generation that seems to be multiplying at an alarming rate, but I also accept 'we' have contributed to it. "we" gave them every material thing we never had, and wonder why they expect everything handed to them. ! !
Technology also makes us all more self absorbed and detached from the rest of the human race...... look at all of us sitting in front of the computer screen, typing comments to people we have never met, when we could just as easily pick up the home phone and talk to a real human being who knows us ! !
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And yet who is it that comes to us 'kids' when all this technology gets the better of them?
........... I get people half my age asking how to work/fix their latest technological gadget ! Its what i get paid for !
I get interstate calls from friends kids who cant figure out how to hook up their home theatre because they dont know how to read the dang manual ! !
I can honestly say I enjoy living in this era , i've never been much for living in the past,
I admire my grandparents generation, they did it tough, but they also saw some of the most incredible inventions - the plane, the space race, television, the list goes on, all generations since have seen adaptions of those technologies, not 'firsts'
now if you'll excuse this ol fart, i'm off to grab my ipad2, use my home wifi to do some xmas shopping while I sit outside with a big glass of something nice while my favorite TV show is recording so that I can watch it at my leisure on another tv across the other side of the house - look Ma, no wires ROFL