I can't say whether it's unreasonable. Doing better than their parents and is certainly what many people have come to expect. But it seems like an unsustainab

I can't say whether it's unreasonable. Doing better than their parents and is certainly what many people have come to expect. But it seems like an unsustainable expectation at least in the absence of some revolutionary breakthrough in energy and food production. And our parents' lives don't have to serve as a measuring stick for our lives. There is no law of nature that says we deserve to live better than our parents, or in fact live in this world at all.