I think the 2008 financial crisis showed most millennials that they would never be able to own anything of real worth and value from their work alone, that they

I think the 2008 financial crisis showed most millennials that they would never be able to own anything of real worth and value from their work alone, that they would not accrue their own generational wealth but instead inherit from their parents (if they inherit at all), and that unless you're born into the big club, are useful to the big club, or are a massive outlier, that hard work and personal sacrifice will not materially improve your condition in life. At least that's what I got from it as an "elder millennial" (born in the very early 1980s).