Not really. It's notional advice, offered in a spirit of kindness. You don't have to like it, but labeling it 'extremely rude at best' is absolutely infantile.
Using euphemism or calling it something better then it is is exactly as infantile as exaggerating. And if is lie too.
I'm sure there's legitimate experience behind the feelings but it's not a good use of this site to allow them to turn into generational flamewar, let alone violent rants.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: it looks like you've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines a fair bit, e.g.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27075363
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27048414
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27045856
Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart? We'd appreciate it.
I've been guessing wrong lately, it seems.
As an aside, I find your choice of pronoun fascinating and enlightening.
I'm not the only person who works on HN!
I think it’s pretty fair to criticize that generations lack of forethought but not so much wealth hoarding.
That's roughly equivalent to putting away $150 a month.
Do you think $266,400 will buy a house?
Do you think $13,900 will buy a house?
I understand that you can divide $266,400 over any interval that's convenient, but I don't see how that relates to my point or the facts.
I have to disagree. My grandparents often have great perspectives on life situations that they readily share when relevant to the people around them. No one sees it as rude, and if they do, it’s usually because the advice hits a little too close to home. Like “when I went through my divorce…”
The truly insightful manage to prompt you to think without explicitly telling you to do so.
(And are sometimes wrong. People can in fact be living in a truly dismal present, whatever their age.)
"When I was your age, I didn't appreciate certain things so I'm pointing them out to you" is really different from "this is the best time of your life" which is a statement an external observer is just not equipped to make about someone else's life.
It's at best just extremely rude to tell someone about their own life and how they should feel about it.