Who told you a new car and owning a house is an "entry level" thing? If you expect somebody to give that to you you're up for a disappointment. A new car is an expensive thing, and a house is even more. You need to work a lot to be able to afford expensive things. Sure, you can make the life satisfying right now - e.g. by buying some drugs. But it will become very unsatisfying pretty soon after that. Because there's no such thing as getting expensive things without working - for most of the people. Sure, tiny minority gets lucky. But the majority works - and gets those expensive things after a long time, because it takes a long time to earn them. And one of the reasons it may be harder to earn them now is that a lot of people have a desire to consume, but no desire to produce - but somebody has to produce what they consume. It's no wonder it becomes harder for the people who produce something to get by - the unearned consumption has to come from somewhere.