Best post of this tl;dr thread. Read it again.
A lot of 'blame game' thinking going on here.
I believe MMM's central point is about taking control of your own destiny. If real estate is too high, find another way. Make more money, move elsewhere, form a coop with like minded folks, work overseas, etc. Convert your problem into a solution by being mentally and physically flexible.
Blaming the status of the world for ones own lack of success is victim mentality. When i lived in the highest cost of living community in the world for 3 years (central Tokyo cerca 1990) i hung out during weekends at a free public park, playing ultimate frisbee games where anyone was welcome, with some people earning almost nothing in that incredibly expensive city..., including various immigrants (who would overstay tourist visas to work as illegal labor), poor 'outsider' Japanese, and student language teachers on mmm style budgets. We learned that we could live in almost no space, and that almost any city has great fun, free events for creative people. We made our own fun, held parties on public transit, cooked for each other from almost free food sources (rice is subsidized, farmers market end of day sourced in season greens almost free), etc.
For me the central message is that we can achieve our financial goals if we take control.
Various things have become expensive and cheap over time. As another poster noted, mortgage rates used to be 4X what they are today. Cars used to have seat belts, power steering, and power brakes AS AN OPTION because so few people could afford that "luxury". Avocados? They used to not even be available to most people at any price.
Now the shortages are not manufactured goods, jobs, or debt, they are housing, education, and fixed income yields. Yes, these shortages are all tied to government policies that inflate the price of these particular goods, but does it even help to know that? Based on price alone, you can figure out what to do: rent or move, community college or trade school, and entrepreneurship. You find your way through the realm of the possible by being flexible, which is not all that different than shopping for bargains at the grocery store.
We could make a long list of the ways the "greatest" and boomer generations fucked over gen X and the millenials: tax policy, national debt, not warning about useless majors, the bubbles, low savings / no inheritance, exurban infastructure, Trump, etc.
However, the worst thing they did is teach us how to blame all our problems on others. Our two political ideologies are arguments about whether all our dissatisfactions in life are the fault of minorities or the 1%. Excuse-making has become natural. How could I not pay half a million for a "starter house" when that's what they cost in my particular city? How could I not have gone into six-figure debt at the prestigious university? How can I possibly retire when treasuries yield 2.5%? I can't get a job because of Honduran immigrants! Wah, wah, wah...
Drop that bullshit complainypants thinking and adopt a lifestyle that avoids the expensive things of our era. Millenials are already doing so, by skipping the boomer staples of suburban housing, cable TV, and V8 powered cars, and instead buying what's relatively cheap in their time: travel and avocados.