This is obviously nonsense, but it makes sense on an emotional level. People know their parents raised them with a higher standard of living than they can/could provide their kids. When they were kids they had a house in the suburbs, occasional vacations, they ate steak once a week, or whatever, all on one and a half incomes. And their grandparents were even wealthier, they bought a house for $35 on the GI Bill, bought a new car every other year, and raised 5 kids on one income as a highschool dropout. Now they deliver door dash, their wife works in a call center, and if they do have a kid he just sits at home with depression and asks for robux and you can’t even afford that and is this all your fault? where did things go wrong? didn’t Walmart used to have $3 lobsters, did I imagine that? I just want N64 and cartoons and fruit loops, goddamn even cereal is expensive now, oh look another nostalgia video in my feed.

It’s like living in a haze of real grievances that you don’t understand and can’t articulate, so they just get displaced into anything that comes along.