My problem with (some) of the Millenials thinking is that they've watched way too much "Mad Men" and think that's how everyone lived from the 50s-90s. ...Wearing cool clothes, driving shiny cars, and sipping expensive scotch at work. (Massive fucking awesome times apparently--as long as you ignore segregation, Vietnam, the assassination of pretty much every civil liberties person, Thatcherism, the constant threat of nuclear war, Korea, the oil crisis, that weird extreme jobless recession/depression which seemed to hit from 89-92 which nobody ever talks about, and a hundred other things). No, watch "All In The Family", "Sanford and Son", "Good Times", and even as far back as "The Honeymooners". That is how most people lived.
The other thing--these "good jobs" they pine about? Most young people wouldn't want them. Hell, I know I wouldn't! Clock in at an auto-plant at 6:00 AM every day to punch out the same fender year after year until you retire or die? If you're a minute late the boss can fire your ass. Check your mobile phone while working? Yeah, right--even if they had them there's no way you'd be allowed to use them. Work down in a mine? No fucking thanks. An ad agency? Surprise--it's not like "Mad Men"! You have to show up in a monkey suit (yes, with a tie) and crouch over a drawing desk in a smoky room with 100 other guys. Feeling a little sick and want to go home? Well too fuckin' bad. 30 seconds late coming back from lunch? Shall we dock your pay or do you want to quit right now?
Below is a picture of what the "awesome fucking jobs" really looked like. ....Shoot me now.