The Materialist Generation?

See this article for some interesting findings from the latest CIRP survey of college freshmen. Do you think this describes Simpson students, or are we different than most? A key excerpt:

...nearly three-quarters of those surveyed in 2006 thought it was essential or very important to be "very well-off financially." That compares with 62.5 percent who said the same in 1980 and 42 percent in 1966, the first year the survey was done.

As shown above, what is striking is not just the raw numbers (see the full story), but how our generation's priorities seem to differ from the values of our parents and grandparents. Or did our parents "sell out" their idealism somewhere along the way? (This is a common charge levied by social scientists against the baby boomers.)