Oh, there not "tards" but they have heightened expectations and overdeveloped self worth. However, that isn't new. In the 80's when I was a the General Manager of a printing business, we had hired a recent High School Graduate to work in the press room as a stacker/helper on the printing crew. My policy was to call everyone in on their 6 month anniversary to ask how things were going and what were they trying to achieve. He looked me straight in the eye and said...I want your job!
I replied that there were days when I would gladly give it to him. I then asked what his time frame for achieving that was and he told me that by this time next year he will be running the place. One year later, he quit the job because he was still in the same job and he wasn't going to work for a place that didn't recognize how lucky they were to have him there. Don't know what happened to him, but I'm sure he is running his own country by now.
That was thirty years ago...and the trend continues. If you don't own a BMW by the time you are 22 you have failed epically.
P.S. I had nothing to do with holding him back, I never told his supervisors what had transpired in the meeting and I never stood in the way of a Supervisors decision to change or upgrade an employee. I really wasn't in fear of losing my job to him.
