Like you said, it was a silly post by a semi-professional writer (and on a relatively off-the-radar blog, to boot.) But at the point where it’s getting coverage on HuffPo and Forbes(!), it becomes a relevant new item related to social media, and thus worth responding to on SME.

You make an excellent point, that people in the comments lumped your whole generation and lobbed word-grenades like “entitled” around. I think the article hit two different nerves: one, among your generation, surrounding the exact issues you’ve mentioned. A tough career outlook, a lot of debt and few opportunities even when you made all the “right” choices. I think it hit another nerve in my generation (GenX), related to being chronically written-off and undervalued by Boomers. A lot of us are sensitive to what we perceive as Millenials displaying the same “you have nothing to contribute” attitude.

We’ve all got a lot of baggage on this journey. If we’re going to be rubbing elbows, we could all stand to show a little more courtesy, yes?