[DisposableMike]

Entitlement is receiving a brand new mower + fuel, in an area in need of its services and with residents having funds available to pay for its services, and thinking that your "hard work" is the only thing required to have realized its profits.

I'm fairly certain that young persons don't feel that anyone "owes them anything" - they only want the same opportunities that those before us had. The facts that those easy gains aren't possible anymore isn't a fault of those with the misfortune of being born 30 years later. Even in your own post, you admit that your platform of success isn't possible for current youth (can't afford college, can't afford a new vehicle, can't afford housing, etc), but yet, you still find a way to blame it on their "entitlement".