There are several respects in which the young do get screwed. After getting the needed job training the price for which is an outrage, they are usually deep in debt. They start life with a tax system that penalizes family formation. They find a job market in ruins, paying a fraction of what their forebears did. They both have to work to fund housing with a price massively inflated by regulatory government, pay a hugely regressive social security tax, to cover their parents, and also have to send their kids to very expensive daycare because the grandparents can't be bothered and want to "enjoy their retirement" in a home with more room than they can use. The employer often demands excessive amounts of travel. They taxes they pay for the welfare state supports an underclass that threatens their safety. To buy a house means more debt, usually for the rest of their working lives. Raised by liberal teachers and mass media advertising, their expectations of "a happy life" are outrageous. Because they cannot afford private or home education, their kids, also raised the inflated expectations of mass media and educrats, wind up a mess, which adds to the overall stress of the situation. There are fights; there is blame. Meanwhile, the divorce industry is circling above, waiting to pick the bones clean. All they can see is a future of a government going broke and handing them the bill.
Too bad they have been conditioned all their lives to fail to see that it is socialism that has done this to them. They have never been educated in the mechanics of liberty. They have no memes to grasp a way out. Even if they did get how they'd been had and what to do, it's going to be a very long slog against very heavy odds for them to dig out of the mess their forebears have made.
I would say that all of that "blows." No wonder they want our stuff.
There are a very few millennial software engineers and professionals that can afford this burden, but the work demands are so excessive that I can't see how the family won't end up under enormous stress unless the grandparents help. This is a sociological construct guaranteed to destroy the middle class, added to a demographic construct dedicated to doing the same.
It is very useful to look at how hunter-gatherer societies deal with these same problems. I recommend David Kelly's book, The Foraging Spectrum: Diversity in Hunter Gatherer Lifeways.
Post 14 is so data rich that I can only comment on a few points before I must take a colleague to the Everglades.
The assorted, sordid socialistic burdens can most easily be corrected by bankruptcy, specifically, Agency Bankruptcy brought on by “defunding”.
Only when America decides to simply shut down most of its regulatory agencies and remove most regulations is there any chance of a prosperous America. The OptOut.com videos about “Creepy Uncle Sam” convinced viewers “Don’t let Uncle Sam play doctor.”
The public educate must themselves about why anything government provides costs an average of four times as much as if the market produced the same good or service.
America can’t afford socialism’s 400% markup on government provided goods and services.
If the public continues to keep the agencies and regulations, their fate is a foregone conclusion.