# Adam Carolla's Take on Occupy Wall Street **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 2, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-carollas-take-on-occupy-wall-street/604784 "2011-12-02T02:34:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 49
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-carollas-take-on-occupy-wall-street/604784/49 "2011-12-03T21:44:56Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > You can disagree with his position (I’m not saying I do or I don’t), but he’s not suggesting “poor people” are a new phenomenon. He attributes it to an entitled generation, a new sort of perspective where privilege is a function of simply being alive and not a result of hard work; one that has been carefully cultivated through raising kids as special, deserving little flowers, where that entitlement need not bear any relationship to, well, anything. If Carolla thinks that a few extra trophies in Little League has shaped the views of a generation, let me offer the following hypothesis. For the last few decades, the 99% have been working harder, putting in more hours, educating themselves more, and being more productive than in years past, and yet seeing no real increase in their standard of living. That was always the bargain, wasn’t it; everybody works their asses off to make the pie bigger and everybody gets a bigger piece? Carolla thinks they’re acting entitled to something they didn’t earn. I think they’re tired of working to earn something and not getting it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-carollas-take-on-occupy-wall-street/604784)._