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People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.

People need to realize their ideas about past "middle class prosperity" are mostly nonsense.

African-American Studies was my college minor, and I did research on Black employment in the 1950s. The percentage of Blacks in white collar jobs was 2%. The most common job for men was janitor, and the most common for women was maid. Black unemployment was 35% in the best of times. Jus' sayin'.