Sometimes it is. For example, people who grew in 50's and 60's wonder why student's loan is so big of a problem and ask whether students do get a odd job to collect the money for their tuition, unaware that in the last 40 years, tuition costs increased fivefold and it usually in the ballpark of an average wage (i.e. to support himself, a prospective student should have not a gig at serving tables, but an average full-time professional job). Positions requiring high skills are already manned by people who graduated 20 years ago, and simple job that could act as springboard have been already outsourced abroad. None of this were order of the day back then, when India was still a British colony and China was enigmatic commieland, so there was plenty of jobs around. Times change, and politicians are rarely ready for this.

I think the point is though the criticism millennials get from the generation previously in particular for being spoilt and that's not true. Millennials are not crying for sympathy as the life we all live is the only one we truly know, but it is saying that it Is not the bed of roses older people think it is.

No, not really.it's just that too often the older generation thinks that the younger struggles because they're lazy

Hahaha, true that XD

Yup, exactly. Also, it is funny when people say "the youth nowadays", as if young people from the outback, city-dwellers, artisans and students had the same problems. Also, it gets pretty hilarious when Americans try to use such labels to denote people outside US. Yes, sure, people born in the Communist country who witnessed the great political mess-up of early 90's and entered the workforce in new, free-market economy face the same problems as kids who were born in times of Carter and began working during Clinton's administration :)

Well, Phil D has OBVIOUSLY never ever ever been on modern minimum wage in his entire life. You can pick em out by what they say. You clearly have no idea what it's like. I WAS going to refute each point individually, but that would be too long of a message for this site to allow purely because of the amount of s**t I would have to explain to you for you to even have a shot in hell of understanding. But rest assured, I CAN refute every single point you just said quite easily. I just tried to, except for the damn comment length limit. You literally could not BE more wrong, dude. Everything you said was incorrect, and REEKS of "I have no idea what poverty is like, and am an a*****e because of it".

Did you take it into an account when choosing school or job? College is only an opportunity to get some specific knowledge that can be easily obtained from different sources. It doesn't guarantee a job, let alone a good job. The problem is that between the popularity of higher education and demographic boom, the increase in number of positions requiring higher education is lower than the increase of well-educated people. In other words, the supply is higher than demand. I'm not an American, hence my question - did recent decades saw a large surge of university graduates and the depreciation of artisans (machinists, plumbers, carpenters) who were considered 'menial workers'? We faced such changes here some time ago (let's say, 20 years back) and now it is not uncommon that welder or builder (even self-taught) makes more than a doctor with few years of experience.