re: Millennials earn 20% less than baby boomers did—despite being better educated

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and there are lot of folks out there struggling. 

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Are you saying a lot of people didnt struggle 50 years sgo?
If you can afford food, housing and a new phone, you aren't struggling.

Your "first world problems" are very unimpressive.

Mentally weak.

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Are you saying a lot of people didnt struggle 50 years sgo?

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Were they just mentally weak too then?

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Or you fail to acknowledge that the world has changed and there are lot of folks out there struggling.

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The world has changed and plenty of people struggle. But it's also changed in a shite ton of ways that are universally beneficial.

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But it's also changed in a shite ton of ways that are universally beneficial.

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That means it's also possible that it has changed in a shite ton of ways that are universally negative. It works both ways. That's the entire premise of the thread.

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They still are a big thing, just for those at the top. We just call them golden parachutes now.

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Those aren't pensions. Those are called severance packages. Sometimes these are negotiated up front, but even your average middle management cog will get a severance package.

You seem to have a real issue with envy of those more successful than you.

Do you complain this much about your fellow millenials who have made it to the C-level already and have these golden parachutes?

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You people are so mentally weak.

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Says the alcoholic Roger.

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Those aren't pensions. Those are called severance packages. Sometimes these are negotiated up front, but even your average middle management cog will get a severance package.

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Like I said, we just call them different things now.

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So you're just going to go with totally unfounded generalizations and not back it with any sort of reference. I see your point, that does seem to be a lot more logical as opposed to point out a single area where in fact life is more difficult than it used to be in some ways.

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Ok, people are living 6 years longer on average than they were in 1975

Child mortality rates are fractions of what they were in the 70s

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That means it's also possible that it has changed in a shite ton of ways that are universally negative. It works both ways. That's the entire premise of the thread.

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Then why is your focus solely on the universal negativity?

How does that factor into your position that life is harder than it was decades ago?

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You can still be struggling even if you have housing a new phone. If you are barely scraping by to make ends meet each month you are struggling. How dense are you?

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The point lost in these discussions is that "barely scraping by" often means something radically different in 2019 than in 1960. "Barely scraping by" frequently meant a bad day away from serious illness/injury/death/destitution in prior decades.

It very rarely means that now. That doesn't mean, of course, that outlooks for millennials in a radically different world aren't poor, or that it's obnoxious for people who cruised to a pension to belittle reasonable millennials who have no such "bootstrap" options. But the consequences for not "scraping by" have changed a lot.