I think the "entitlement mentality" idea gets thrown around quite a lot - mostly by boomers who think that the generations that followed them expect everything. Of course, the irony is that it's the boomers who have enjoyed a mind-boggling advancement of living standards, education, wealth, etc over their lifetime, which their successors are unlikely to ever have access to. We're too busy paying off our uni debts, trying to break into the massively inflated housing market, wading through long commutes to outer suburbs, and forking out through the gills to pay exorbitant childcare fees because the cost of living pressures mean the average single income ain't enough to live on. That's why wealthy, white, male, boomer politicians (of ANY political persuasion) who are coasting along on their economic privilege have no right to be pointing the entitlement mentality finger.