My only regret in life is that I wasn’t born 8 years earlier. My older sister paid 60% less for college and bought a house twice the size for half the price of what my family is currently considering. Timing is everything.
We are a small cohort and I sometimes wonder if we are less slackers than just preemptively traumatized, waiting for the other shoe to drop like a neutron bomb, The Road Warrior as training for those who wish to survive, holding our collective breath waiting for the apocalypse to finally show up.
What a puny plan.
This nihilism does no one any favors of course. I just think we're no where near a breaking point for any of it to change significantly.
Newer generations lucked out because they learned early that boomers will only help themselves and the only chance they have for social mobility is to gamble their way into wealth. Lucky for them, they'll get to live out their life being served coffee by some of the smartest, most well educated baristas the world has ever seen.