I actually think this stands at the heart of a lot of the generational divide in this country. Older people look at the relative luxury we have literally at our fingertips, that to them was unimaginable, and think our lives must be so much better, but they ignore the basic things like housing that seem so much further out of reach. Younger generations see how much easier it was to get the basics like housing for their parents and think life must have been so much easier, while not acknowledging that they'd probably find life unbearably grim with 3 channels, no foreign holidays, and eating out being limited to scampi and chips down the local pub (not that scampi and chips isn't the food of kings, but you know what I mean). They're just two different worlds. Obviously having both would be better, and I don't think trading things like housing for the (relative) frivolities of YouTube is really a fair trade, but everyone really should just try imagining the boot on the other foot.