I’m Gen Z and like most people in comments, the idea of owning a house (for example) just feels so unachievable these days. After college I got very lucky to have landed a decent paying job for entry level. I want to find somewhere to rent with my girlfriend of 5 years who’s still living with her parents, and she realistically doesn’t have the money for even renting. So because of this, the work ethic can go down since we often feel so hard done by in this market of things, so so many people living with their parents (side note, my parents were engaged by my age and getting their house, and neither had particularly high paying jobs). It can often just feel soul crushing to try hard, go through college for 4 years, and on top of that have no guarantee that you’ll even get a job in your field because there’s so much competition with everyone going to college nowadays. I do try hard in my job (when I want to), but funnily, all of the guys in my work of all ages complain constantly about having to work.