Hackernews is probably also an extremely skewed financial cross-section. Most of my friends from my higher education and career, as well as everyone I know who

Hackernews is probably also an extremely skewed financial cross-section. Most of my friends from my higher education and career, as well as everyone I know who I've heard mention hackernews, are like you said, making more than their parents and enjoying a higher quality of life but still not planning on buying property because housing costs are too high in cities. But if I go back to the town where I grew up, most of the people I know that didn't move away to go to a good university or go into a field like tech or finance are worse off than their parents on any metric I can think of.