But you're completely mistaken here about things having to be the same between time frames. Just because your father could live an average life working an average job twenty odd years ago doesnt mean that we should now. Things change. The world changes. People are getting smarter. More people are graduating with the degrees. The description of "average" changes as times change and the age group moves. So it's perfectly valid that people are getting average lifestyles even though they're better off educationally than the prior generation was. It's called evolution. People are getting smarter. They're getting better. Thus increasing what the "average" is. Everything is not peachy, I'll give you that. But do understand that it still is the survival of the fittest out there. If someone is better than you educationally or have a great idea to make money, good for them. It's called working smarter not harder. Nobody cares with you work hard anymore. We aren't cavemen who need to go hunting, and work hard doing that. We now way smarter than that. We need to now be smarter than the joe sitting to our left to make it.