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Like an ignorant litter of lackeys forgetting why they are paid

No, I'm not saying that.  I'm just agreeing that other young generations have had their elders clucking in dismay, and that the elders have often been correct.

OK. So are millennials part of a trend of a drop in hardworking-ness and taking responsibility. Like they do it less than your generation, which did it less than the previous generation and so on and so forth? Or are most generations about at the same level, and millennials just took a dip?

I think there are more jobs today versus 1920 where you can basically slide by doing little.  Government of course was a lot smaller back then.  Many people lived with no contact with Federal government beyond the post office.  Few had to file taxes.  If you worked for a living, you worked.  There would have been white collar jobs of course, but I bet nearly all of them worked also, accountants, lawyers, architects, whatever.

My kids experienced the same thing I did in their old jobs, a lot of people who had meetings and did emails and little else.  Newly hired folks come in to set the world on fire, but that won't last if they see lazy incompetents being promoted.

The regulations have cleaned up our air and water measurably, and importantly, though I'm sure inefficiently.  I imagine a modern car with 100% gasoline and no cats would provide superior mileage and power versus current engines, and be cheaper as well.  Imagine you had a choice between two cars, one with current emissions equipment and one without.  Most would take the latter.

The VW diesel scandal is a good example of this. VW knew that their customers wanted performance, so they scammed the emissions testing so they could boost performance in the real world but detect the test pattern and cut emissions just for the test.

The people want to believe their car is clean, but if it performs better than a similar-spec clean car from another brand, they'd rather have it and not ask questions about how.

Some have speculated that the lowered output from the sun could result in a “Little Ice Age”, similar to the one that occurred between the 14th and 19th century and happened concurrently with mountain glacier expansion in the European Alps, New Zealand, and Alaska among other locations, and lower temperatures across the northern hemisphere.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/sun-solar-minimum-effects-space-earth-ice-age-a9519986.html

Good point the community in which I reside about 10 yrs back put millions into the storm sewer updating,pumps,retaining tanks,overflow pools,etc.I live 2 miles from a Great Lake our water bill is 3X what it use to be and this is infuriating as 5 of the last 7 days it's been a deluge.Problem is years ago shortcuts were taken here/there and a lot of storm and sanitary lines were merged or routed and laid improperly.Folks all over have had water in their basements or 1st floors and it just wasn't muddy

That's government "working", Mr. N., not private developers.

Storm sewers and sanitary sewers were customarily combined, until the late '60's/early '70's or so. It has been prohibited just about everywhere I know of, since then.