You lived in a different world with different rules.
Your parents would have told Zuckerberg to get his degree and Bill Gates to get out his garage and get a job at IBM. I invested in the city when it was as shithole and folks called me crazy then.
exactly! Besides folks from China, India, Brazil, etc competing directly with Americans in most jobs because of something called the internet... Housing (owning and renting) is more expensive, being white isn't enough to be successful, and the cities aren't dangerous.
It's a different world!
How to compare one generation to another. Boomers did good things but they all wanted to be rich and have a big house too, not all of them were able to do it.