Aren’t we living in an upside-down world when the least accomplished are hailed as heroes for having attained poverty and the most accomplished are vilified for their lofty earnings?

Gentrification of neighborhoods has become the thorniest social issue in two vulnerable neighborhoods, East L.A. and South Los Angeles.

While it is unknown what portion of protestors is from the hood, does it matter who is schlepping the signs that declare “We Oppose Improvement”?

How much talent is required to lie on a couch six days a week and collect a welfare check that normal working people with families underwrite every day?

Poverty often, not always, is a choice.

And so in the last weeks, coarse, unemployed, unfocused, undereducated, easily misled millennials have been parading through Los Angeles neighborhoods, protesting feared gentrification.

The second saddest story in yesterday’s newspaper was the childlike vandalizing of frequently targeted Weird Wave Coffee, Boyle Heights.

Overgrown boy and girl brats, heavily coached, recently have been grousing around the coffee shop that opened last month.

If spelling and defining “gentrification” were a conditions for protesting, the streets would be wiped clean of these piggy-backers in five minutes.

The green kids kvetch that Weird Wave draws a hip clientele, who ultimately may upgrade the character of the neighborhood and cause rents to rise.

Horrors.

Are only some of us here to improve the lot we began with?

There may be sound reasons for opposing gentrification. Let’s hear them.