Look, fact is most those young adults in the late 40s and 50s had it made compared to what is left today.
Hell, we were lucky to buy our first home in the early 80s, and it was 40 years old. We had to beg, borrow and steal and this was with (2) two full time incomes, with jobs that were not secure and didn't last.
Today it's even tougher to survive.
You know what I *constantly* hear from the old, non-boomer generation? "I don't know how these people make it nowadays".
I hear that a lot from my mother and father in law who are in their eighties. They are appalled at the prices and the differences in the quality of life for working class and middle class people now as compared to how it was when they were starting out as a young couple.