Here's a question though, for OP and for everyone up-voting: What went wrong? What did the Baby Boomers screw up that made life so terrible for Millenials?
Here are my best guesses.
But this couldn't last. The world did the inevitable, it rebuilt. And that meant competition. Not just for goods, but competition for workers and factories. American companies moved their factories out of the country in order to compete. We lost jobs, but gained cheaper products.
But can we blame the baby boomers, and their parents, for this? They were lucky to experience these post-war booms. They were unlucky to experience the wars.
Since I'm talking manufacturing, we might as well mention the other change, also inevitable: robotization. Listing all the jobs taken by robots would make this comment entirely too long.
Expectations have changed. Houses are bigger. Cars are more complicated and nicer. I have many, many more goods and services than my parents did at my age. Partly because things have become cheaper. But also because that's what we do nowadays. How much is your household paying for internet and cell phones? Your parents didn't have those bills. And they're expensive.
The second is expectations of work and achievement. I have to run now, but let me just leave it with this. The other day, the best chef in the world committed suicide, apparently because he couldn't cope with the stress of the high expectations of perfection and the 18 hour days. Let me ask you, was he doing better, financially and emotionally, as a person running just a regular eatery? I'm asking WHY did he drive himself crazy fighting to reach such ideals? Was it necessary?
I think you can ask those questions about a lot of things people do.