Does it seem to anyone else that too many of the rising younger generation are doing nothing of real value in their lives?

I kinda think so too, but I heard someone ask before, doesn’t every preceding generation think that about the current one? What’s “real value” mean?

I know that there are still many kids who are active and productive. But I feel like we’re at that stage in a society’s development where many parents are stuck working, and not spending enough time watching  their children. Money buys us everything. There want their family to be happy and it ends up conditioning their kids differently. Small chihave no choice but to turn to the internet, the only thing they knew growing up. And of course, internet = social media = quick satisfaction = fragile people.

It’s like this, but we’re also on another “level” of development. Kids are competitive. They’re just not making a scene about it, and the bad news in the media drowns it all out.

I don’t come from the ghettos or something, but I grew up (and still am growing up, lol) in a poor school district. A handful of kids want to start their own businesses, another handful get on a bus to another high school for STEM academy. Some do welding and construction. There’s fire and police academy. And then everyone overlap and participate in a sport (WE MADE TO STATE FINALS IN SOCCER! Woo!! Soccer is a religion here lol), music, or after school job. A good portion of the school are lazy kids who participate in nothing but “celebrity” gossip and planning after school fights, though. But the productive kids actually tend to stay away from them. Isn’t it like that in every generation? There’ll always be productive and unproductive people. Aaand I went on an accidental rant 🤦🏻‍♀️ oops.