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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Because they genuinely don’t see the difference between how things were then and how things are now. 

I’ll use my grandfather for an example. 

When he was early twenties, he got a job through nothing more than charisma and showing up to the company and asking if they were hiring. He turned that into a job that could support a family and buy a house. 

For his generation, it really was a matter of “if you try hard enough, you’ll succeed” (this is an oversimplification but in general it was far more true then compared to now) 

Whereas nowadays that same action gets you an eye roll and they tell you to apply online. 


Thing is, the older generations simply don’t face the same challenges. They don’t see the advantages they had as advantages because it wasn’t that they had advantages, it was just normal back then. It was the default. 

When looking at it that way, what we deal with are disadvantages compared to their normal. And it’s super easy to ignore and not see other people’s disadvantages.
gpt
&gt; Because they genuinely don’t see the difference between how things were then and how things are now.

This goes both ways. I've had people tell me that everyone in my generation was given a new car at age 16, and paid for college with a dorm or sorority/frat house. 

The reality was that I walked or bicycled to my two jobs until I had enough saved for a down payment on a car. I remember being asked to go out for coffee with someone I bumped into in town, and the embarrassment of not having enough money for a cup of coffee. 

It wasn't like what you see on TV.