Except people are getting squeezed on housing and the basic necessities now, people are having to work long hours just to live. I can’t even imagine how my young adult life would play out if I were experiencing it now, paying ridiculous rents and making the shitty wages. Sharing an apartment and affording anything else was hard enough back then, I can’t even imagine how people are making it out there nowadays. I got lucky and got into a home when prices were semi-decent, it’d be a severe strain on finances if I had to pay current rates.