How come every generational struggle is the same?

The older ones complain the younger ones are the worst generation yet! They miss the good old days when they were better in every way. Younger generations disregard the old as behind the times and backwards. As if they've outgrown the pitiful generations that came before. Either way the result is their own generation is superior. The cycle repeats over and over. But why? Are humans just naturally self centered?

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MrBlueGuy

Well yes but it's also inherintly true things are getting easier so each new generation before it is weaker and spoiled. For me I'd say oh, at that age we'd be running around outside..my dad might say he had a job delivering newspapers at that age..my grandfather might say he was working in a coal mine. This generation seems to be especially lazy and weak though, so much so that they think it might be the first generation to not outlive their parents which is pretty scary.