Old person here.

Things were so, so, so much easier when I was younger.

You could walk right out of high school into a steady job that would pay the bills, or you could go to university, pay a couple of thousand in tuition, study whatever you liked, and walk out and get a better job.

Or, if you didn't want a full-time job because you wanted to be a writer, a musician, an artist, or just have more spare time, you could live frugally on a part-time job.

For generations, a single wage earner could support a stay-at-home partner, raise a couple of kids and send them to university, and then retire with a paid-off house and a comfortable pension. Now two wage earners can't do that.

When older people, like the execrable Whoopi Goldberg, complain about how young people need to work harder, I want to condemn them to working minimum wage in a fast food joint until they cry for mercy.

We had it all, and worse, we stole it from the next generations.