Entitlement

One major problem with society today is that children have a sense of entitlement. They believe they "deserve" things, or that withholding things from them is an act of malice. Case in point, the three-year-old Pipi Quinlan, who ordered an earthdigger online. A generation ago a child would never dare enter an auction and bid for a NZ$20,000 earthdigger. What's more, the adults at the auction would have simply dismissed the three-year-old's bid. At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not concerned about this and other similar incidents, and we wonder why online auction sites are so acquiescent to this tide of entitlement.