This is interesting to me because (as a 30 year old) it never occurred to me that I would be more prosperous than my parents. I'd like to be, of course, but it seems alien to me that there was an era where that was all but guaranteed. It doesn't matter, except that it explains where a lot of this older generation's resentment of "the youth" comes from - they haven't faced the situation we face, so the only way they can make sense of us not succeeding is that we're simply not trying. When that generation is a large voting bloc, that poses a problem.
(That said, I suspect most of us HN readers will not be poorer than their parents. Tech is an area of boom in an economy of bust, after all, so factor that in when reading responses on here)
(That said, I suspect most of us HN readers will not be poorer than their parents. Tech is an area of boom in an economy of bust, after all, so factor that in when reading responses on here)