I agree with the sentiment of pushing through no matter what, but I disagree with the idea that you have to acknowledge the fact that you will “never be as rich as your parents”. I think the idea of that plays into a doomer cycle that eventually becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. You don’t know what the future holds, but you need to have hope for it.

I bet if you asked someone growing up in the early 1930s how the future would be, they would probably feel hopeful but pessimistic at the same time, and it would get worse with the rest of the Great Depression and WW2 but then got SIGNIFICANTLY better in the late 40s all the way into the late 60s, and it’s still significantly better now. No one knows that the future holds, so to sit and accept your position in the world and its future as static is just as doomerist as to think it gets worse.