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Tbh, our generation is in a really weird situation for a variety of reasons. I'm the same age as you. We have a ton of people in our generation who never left their parents place because good jobs with livable wages are few and far between nowadays, and cost of living has never been higher. Even my wife and I still live with her family (we're currently working on getting a mortgage and will hopefully be moving out this year though). We are more successful than pretty much ANY of my friends, making over 6 figures between us.

Let me just break this down. The majority of my friends STILL live with their parents. Most who have their own place rent and are struggling to make ends meet. Many live with a partner or multiple friends just to be able to afford renting. I'm trying to think if I even know anyone around my age who owns a house / property. My wife's sister does but she's in her 30's. I have one friend who owns a house, but it's basically a trailer in a trailer park. Most of my friends have college / university degrees and are still not making a livable wage, even if they work in their field. Many of them don't work in their field. Many work dead end jobs and / or are forced to job hop often because there's very few decent employment opportunities available.

Previous generations are entirely out of touch with how to live in modern society, because most people of OUR generation don't even know how to do that. Everything nowadays is technology based, and older people with no tech skills are more of a liability oftentimes, than an asset, in the workplace. However, the older people are entrenched in most companies and try and concentrate as much money as possible near the top to these legacy employees who honestly add little or no value to a company. They do this while paying entry level employees the lowest possible wage and cutting as many benefits as they possibly can. They then blame these employees and everyone younger for every problem, even though they had nothing to do with most problems they get blamed for.

The members of past generations who didn't have really good jobs, or who didn't think to save for retirement are struggling to make ends meet too, often relying on their kids income to supplement their own. I have many friends whose parents are worse off than them and need their kid to live with them to help with bills. Basically, anyone in the middle class has very limited prospects in modern society. And as long as they stay in the middle class, they will never be able to make a livable wage.

My parents have always been extremely poor, and even they owned their own house by the time they were my age. I'm one of the most well off people I know in any of my friends groups and I don't even own property yet. It's just ridiculously expensive to live nowadays. This makes people seek some sort of escape, hence why the internet, meme culture, and escapism are entrenched in our modern society. People with nothing good and no prospects seek a brief lol to distract themselves from the reality of life.

TL;dr: everything is expensive, wages are low, there's no middle class anymore, everyone is depressed, previous generations are out of touch, and we get blamed for everything we have no control over.
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