I don’t think you are saying the same thing. You are saying this; > you need to work some X% harder than the last generation to accomplish the same thing And

I don’t think you are saying the same thing. You are saying this; > you need to work some X% harder than the last generation to accomplish the same thing And this is the contrasting bit from the comment you are responding: > working hard won't get you anything close to what previous generations had The difference is that your sentence says they have to work harder to achieve the same, while their comment says that even if they work hard they can’t achieve the same. That is two very different things.