The Hills and the Real World- Cultivating a Generation of Laziness

In the past ten years, it feels like there has been this explosion of reality tv shows coming to the forefront. No longer was it all about The Price is Right, or even soap operas. There came a change towards the teenage-early twenty year old lifestyle. Many people call this the "MTV" generation, which has been around since the 80's. However, I think that even more recently the MTV reality shows have really started to have there impact, with potential repercussions.
The cultivation theory, which believes that tv is a main influential factor on how people will grow up to percieve the world. It allows them to develop a culture in their own minds how things can and will work out for them. It seems to me that shows like The Hills and the Real World are turning more into a lifestyle each season than a show. Both of these shows are just so far past the actual reality of things that it would almost seem impossible for someone to think that anyone can just start living like those characters. For instance, The Hills, shot in southern California, follows a group of girls that belong to the 1% of families that make millions of dollars a year. They get cars expensive cars bought for them, designer clothes and purses, and don't even get me started on the Ugg boots. And lets be honest, do they really pay for all of it with there tanning salon job? No, mom and dad get the bill at the end of the day, and this is what's scary to me. The cultivationg theory is being seen very clearly in my generation. Girls hold these characters to the highest importance, going out and trying to buy what they do and act like they do, 11 year olds getting the new iPhone before I do (and im not bitter about that at all). And the craziest thing is, parents, at least in northern jersey, just seem to throw the money at them. It's almost like they can't say no to being in debt to make their child happy, instead of telling their kid to go work for it. And guys aren't off the hook either, getting the hand outs, and especially expecting dad or his friend to hit them up with a high paying job right out of college.
The Real World is probably the farthest thing from it. Its a group of college kids that live in a house together and have challenges and basically sit in couches until the next dramatic blow up between two or even three people. Come on everybody, does that sound anything like the real world at all? People honestly beleive that things will just be handed to them without any work at all?
This theory was mostly developed and is centralized around how violence and sex on tv can affect a child growing up and watching. However, I think that this is going to be the next application towards this theory--- laziness. It's creating a generation that is going to be looked upon as the 'handout' generation. Our parents and their parents worked to live and lived to work, and it seems like mine just lives to play and it's a scary thing. Slowly but surely the real world and the hills are trying to formulate themselves into a lifestyle that everyone thinks they can live, and its going to be disappointment to all of them when they realize this isn't reality, when that first bill comes in the mail or when their car craps out and THEY have to fix it. Then we'll be the complaining generation, which I'm not sure if that's an improvement. Wake up everyone, this isn't southern cali, and all we have is mountains, no hills.