The Laziest Generation (idiallo.com)

The sarcastic section fooled me because it sounds exactly like so many internet blowhards.

There's a lot of quality points on both sides:

Side A (market is unfair): NIMBYism, minimum/median wage not growing as fast as price increases, major governmental help to prior generations (inexpensive college, taxes based on purchase price etc)

Side B (gotta make your own way): All property is a privilege not a right (at best you have a _need_ to rent not to own), don't pile in to an overpriced city if wages do not make it make financial sense, lifestyle inflation has very real aggregate consequences (avocado toast, cell phones, global travel etc), people used to live together far more and in less space, yes your wages have declined in real terms but globalization has fought price inflation on goods

Unironically, yes. Look at photos of people today, and then photos of people a century ago. You can’t hide the sloth.

Kids have always self-managed themselves with entertainment. But entertainment used to take a lot of effort. Hobbies, reading, making things, getting out and socializing in real life - which also meant inventing things to do, etc.

Entertainment is on tap now. Psychologically, kids are not built to avoid that.

They are supposed to be exploring. And they are. Finding out what is fun. And they are. Doing the hard work, of finding the easiest path. They are doing the latter, but the need for the former had been 24/7 automated way.

It isn't a mystery to me why sustained efforts may be harder for many.