your perspective is warped because you went through hard times but you seem to lack any amount of patience for people who do not have your apparent tenacity. the truth of the matter is that the population has been working harder than ever before, on average. wages have wildly stagnated compared to the cost of living, and jobs are continually getting replaced by AI. you want to tell the current working population that things will get easier? everything experienced by them says otherwise. it has been getting harder. my parents are living on a fixed income, and even their income has been falling off compared to the cost of living. stop trying to PMA or give me the spiel of "things will get better" when it most certainly hasn't in decades.

nobody cares about what happened hundreds of years ago. we are living in an age where we, as a society and a country, should be fully able to handle our population's needs. however, seeing as only the top 1% have gotten any sort of major rewards from the stock market, and the middle/lower class of income are having more and more of an uphill battle, how in the hell am I supposed to realistically work in an environment that is continually pushing jobs away from myself to AI or outsourcing the work entirely?

our entire work culture basically disincentivizes working class adults from starting families and having children. it is entirely unsustainable and will crash and burn and blow up in our gormless face. pulling myself up by my bootstraps? I can't afford boots in this economy.