And it is THOSE Millennials, Gen Y and gen Z brats that are doing their best to screw things up royally.
Sure.
But your (my) folks said the same about your (my) generation. And our folks' folks, and their folks, and their folks' folks, and….
The kids are definitely fuсkin' it up for the previous generations — dismantling what they built, changing their rules, picking and choosing which of their manners and values and customs and priorities they keep and which ones they discard, butchering the language, etc. Their music is godawful noise. They do stuff, say stuff, wear stuff that scandalizes their parents. Every generation of kids does it; they make society and civilization the way they want it. And every generation of adults bіtches and moans about it, to not much effect.
It sucks for us oldsters, because beyond a certain age we start to feel like foreigners in what was our own world. No, I do not freakin' want my car (…flyswatter, toilet, etc) on the internet. I want to control my car with buttons, levers, and knobs, not a touchscreen. I want nothing to do with 'artificial intelligence'. If I never hear the word "infotainment" again, that's grand. When someone says they're an "influencer" or "content creator", what I hear is "unemployed". I don't want a "smart" home; I want the regular dumb kind where I get the hell up off my aѕѕ and turn the lights on and off with switches on the wall, and they light up in one (1) colour, and there is no "smart speaker" listening and spying on me all the time. When I go to a hotel, I will check in when I get there, at the desk, in person — I will not "pre-check-in" by downloading whatever dogѕhit-dot-com app and giving all my info to the hotel, the app creator, and their "trusted partners". No, I will not
smash those Like and Subscribe buttons, and you're not getting a 5-star review from me or a 20% tip at checkout just for doing your job. Et cetera.
Every single day, the ease and likelihood is less of my getting my way on any of this. But it works for the kids, overall. Not all of it, of course. They make hardships for themselves (just like we did) that could have been avoided if they'd (we'd) just listened to their (our) elders. But they usually don't; they never have (
God, mom and dad, you don't know
anything!). That's just the way it is, and it's mostly okeh. They make the world work the way they want, more or less, just like we did, and our parents, and their parents, on back through the ages.