Becoming a financially secure adult is hard. Establishing yourself in your career, securing a home, starting a family … it’s a struggle as old as the modern economy, maybe even civilization itself. As is the lament of every generation that they have it worse than their forebears.

Millennials, assisted by the internet, made an exceptionally fine art of intergenerational ranting. For the last 10 years they have been saying that earlier generations not only had it easier, but they also robbed millennials of resources.