Those in their 30’s and younger have never seen financial distress.
Their parents kept them isolated from 2002 and 2008.
Life, when you are starting out, sucks and it has since the world began.
I know what I went through was nothing compared to what my parents when through when they started out. My dad is not smiling in the early pictures because he had bad teeth from malnutrition in childhood. At least when I hit the world I had a good set of chompers to eat my raman with a scoop of peanut butter.
But the idea of budgeting, not buying things on credit and getting your entertainment for free rather then paying big bucks for it is often dismissed with scorn. They "own nothing" but they are not happy.