They've got all the hope in the world. The GI Bill still pays for college. There aren't many jobs available for higher level degrees but trades are part of the college system now and they pay well. Plumbers make almost as much as accountants but without the debt of a 4 year degree. Plus, you get two more working years. There's a shortage of plumbers.

They could buy land and build a house. There are workshops all over the country where you can go and learn housebuilding skills. You can also volunteer at habitat for humanity.

Young men can buy a cheap van or pop up camper, fix it up and live there for a few years before they have a family to save money to build their dream. That would also allow them to travel for work. They could also choose to save foe college, get some life experience and then get that degree if that's what they want.

You young people seem to have this idea that life was just handed to boomers and they didn't have to do anything to have a good life. That's simply not true.

It's true that they were able to accrue wealth more easily, bit it wasn't just because of unions. I'll remind you that unions have never been a compliant part of employment, meaning even then, many people worked their whole lives without ever being part of a union.

What gets missed so often in these discussions of wealth building, is the invisible labor of women and how suburbs made the population dependent on industry for basic needs. Like food and clothing.

All that is gone now. If you want to eat, you have to buy food at inflated prices from grocery stores. You're not growing your own. It costs more now to buy the raw materials to make clothes because the fashion industry is rife with slave labor.

Convenience and ease. That's what it is. These young men want life to work like a video game. And theyre always looking for cheat codes. It doesn't work that way.