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Indeed! As I told them, though, historical context varies:

Today: shitloads of college debt, prospect they won't live quite as well as their parents

Back then: my grandfather got shitloads of banknotes, filled a wheelbarrow, and rushed to the bakery before they had lost half their value.

Or: some years later: went without work and pay.

(Of course, I also talked to them about long-term structural and cyclical issues and validated the importance of subjective experience)