[david38]

I think rather they were sold a myth of how easy life would be. For all this “hardship” people are swarming to come here and when they get here, want to stay.

There is also a problem with inversion of cost. “Things” were expensive my parents day - TV, etc. Property was cheaper, so a boomer sees an iPhone and says a person is rich, but looks at his own 3k sq ft house and thinks “nothing special”.