Exactly -- most generations have had good reasons to think their generation was having it worse than all previous generations. Imagine growing up and doing duck

Exactly -- most generations have had good reasons to think their generation was having it worse than all previous generations. Imagine growing up and doing duck and cover drills under your school desks as a child because of the threat of Cold War nukes. Imagine the Spanish Flu. Imagine what Americans experienced in the Civil War. And these are only relatively recent examples. Plenty more going back centuries. There are always reasons to be scared.