Someone should introduce this idiot child to welfare cheese and generic supermarket cans saying simply, “corn.”. Every generation has hard times. it takes an ignoramus devoid of the capacity for rational thought to believe otherwise.
Yes, it seems like a lot of college grads want to live the same lifestyle they lived in high school, not realizing their parents didn’t live that lifestyle straight out of college.
And the $36k 1980 is baloney—starting pay for an entry level teller *now* is $14 to $15/hour (but no college degree required).
Here is an interesting article that has a chart of average annual salaries for college grads from 1960 to 2014 in both real and adjusted dollars.