here's a graph showing medium incomes of Gen Z and Millennials materially higher than any of the earlier generations. As the nation is richer now, so are you. Enjoy it and stop insisting you are miserable and it's all unfair.
You people are making more money than your older peers and if we don't muck up the country with bad politics, you will continue to outpace previous generations.
You are making more money so you don't get to complain about housing and college - your high salaries make up for it. You spend about the same or less as a percent of your income on housing than previous generations.
Some Gen Z-ers protest, claiming that higher incomes are a mirage because they do not account for the exploding cost of college and housing. After all, global house prices are near all-time highs, and graduates have more debt than before. In reality, though, Gen Z-ers are coping because they earn so much. In 2022 Americans under 25 spent 43% of their post-tax income on housing and education, including interest on debt from college—slightly below the average for under-25s from 1989 to 2019. Bolstered by high incomes, American Zoomers’ home-ownership rates are higher than millennials’ at the same age
and here's the whole story if you can get through the paywall