Totally agree. I do feel like younger generations have much more difficult circumstances, especially when it comes to class mobility. Primarily education, housing and healthcare are just much more expensive and out-of-reach if you weren't born to wealthy parents, and the number of jobs where you can "work your way up from the mail room" has drastically shrunk.

At the same time, I see a pretty pervasive attitude among young people that boils down to "if I don't do well, it's society's fault". It's like this overwhelming victim mentality, like a sense of learned helplessness that affects areas of their life even where they are not helpless. Not only is this a bad attitude for society, it also becomes ultimately unhelpful for the individual as well.

Obviously I see where a lot of this attitude comes from (see the first paragraph), and yes, I'm speaking in very broad generalizations that don't apply to everyone. But it just feels like this big shift where a lot of people feel the only path to success is, essentially, luck or some sort of scheme.