re: I don't like to perpetuate sterotypes

No need to discombobulate yoself , Skippy . It’s not an attack, just human nature across the generations and across societies . Affluence makes people weak and decadent. Knowing my grandparents and great aunts and uncles and how they came up in a Depression and then WW2 and then the Baby boomers , Gen X etc you can see a clear pattern from self sufficiency and personal discipline. It’s a stark generational regression. I’m not blaming you and I’m not exempting myself . I’m just observing the culture.

Imho , the internet age has turbocharged things. Life is just easier in a million different ways . It insulates us from reality. It allows us to believe that Celebrity Culture and SJW causes are the “ real” stuff . One can now live in Mom’s basement and still feel like you are participating in the larger culture. It’s a shift in the whole idea of what life is. Twenty year olds today are essentially children in a way we weren’t allowed to be .

By the way, you need to familiarize yourself with the recession of the early 80s, stagflation, unemployment rates, minimum wage, average salaries etc. America was a mess throughout the 70s and into around 1983. Rebounding after Obama feels a LOT like rebounding after Carter . And the standard of living in 2017 and the things taken for granted today that are RIDICULOUSLY affluent compared to 1977 or 1967.