"Every generation is sure that these young kids today, with their hair and their clothes, just don't appreciate how hard things used to be. Every generation is

"Every generation is sure that these young kids today, with their hair and their clothes, just don't appreciate how hard things used to be. Every generation is wrong about that, of course." Funny anecdote: for years, my father kept telling me that "when he was a kid, we called our father sir". Made sense, until one day I read a book in which the character's father complained of the exact same thing, but the book was written in 1900.