My childhood in the 80s was much more comfortable than my children's current life. Some of that is just that I'm paid worse than my father was at the same age,

My childhood in the 80s was much more comfortable than my children's current life. Some of that is just that I'm paid worse than my father was at the same age, but a lot of it is the rising cost of healthcare and housing. The things that are better today for us are mostly pretty trivial - kids movies on demand via Netflix rather than on a schedule via HBO, for example.