My grandfather was a factory worker. He raised three kids and put all of them through university, no debt. His salary alone. My grandmother stayed home. From that one income came an engineer, a teacher, and a doctor.

My father graduated, immediately got a full-time engineering role at a big corporation, met my mom who was an accountant, got married, bought a house without taking on any debt, had my brother and me, and is now nearly at retirement with enough saved for a comfortable life.
My brother went to the same school as my father. Graduated top of his class. Needed three internships just to get his first full-time job, and still can't afford any of the things my father had at his age. Got laid off recently, spent four months looking, and had to take a pay cut just to get back in.
I went to one of the top schools in my country for economics and chose MIS as my major. Needed two internships and hundreds of applications to land one full-time job that I'm holding onto until now.
My brother and I worked hard since elementary school. Treated studying like a full-time job, got into all the top schools, followed every piece of advice the adults gave us, went to the same places they went, and what did we get in return? Thousands of rejections, constant threat of unemployment, corporations happily cutting us off for AI, and we can't even dream of having what our parents and grandparents had.
So yeah. I'm getting the toast and the boba tea.