The problem is opportunity has fled this generation of students. We have boomer managers with non-relevant degrees posting entry level jobs expecting 4 year degrees and five years of highly specialized relevant work experience.
Looking to the government to enact keysnian economics didn't work so well for Japan. And anyway policy matters and is important, but people at the same time need to take their lives in their own hands and make changes. Hard changes.
Just like we're always trying to get everyone to give up their gas guzzling carbon emitters, we should also be trying to get everyone to adopt a little bit more of a responsibility of managing their own lives. For the social good. The more people earn, the more wealth we have to lift all boats.