My experience teaching millennials and the following generation has taught me that this is far from true. When a young person stops coming to class, binge watches Friends for thirty-six hours, and can’t seem to get out of bed, it’s almost always because the student cares too much, not too little. They don’t choose to tap out of life because they think winning is meaningless. They tap out because they are taught that winning means everything and they cannot envision any path to winning.
