The complaints people have about millenials are, as I see it, a reflection of the social policies of the schools they attended. People talk about the "everyone is a winner" attitudes, but I think the effect of that is less than of other attitudes that public schools perpetuated. Because while giving every kid a trophy is going to influence their development, most kids realize that's bullshit by age 12–14.<p>The subtler things count more. The no tolerance policies are reflected in the SJW silence-everything philosophies. The overly-aggressive anti-bullying campaigns resulted in a "go to a teacher in the case of any conflict" approach and is reflected in millenials who demand to be policed — most prevalent in universities, but also found elsewhere. The restrictions and omnipresent supervision inspired by overly-intrusive laws and liability precedents. The mantras repeated to children from birth "it's OK to be different", "be yourself", "you can be anything you want to be" can be seen in the "personal brands" that millenials create — brands that they live in all parts of their lives, not just as a mask when they need to charm someone.<p>I'm not saying that all these things are regressions: older generations have as much bullshit to offer, but we're used to their bullshit. But millenials think that they're creating a culture that liberates them from their parents' bullshit, but their dogma is just as bad.