Almost *all* of my friends are “wealthier” than their parents were with just a few notable exceptions. Here I’m using a simplistic materialistic definition of wealth.
I suppose for someone who is not in that boat they might perceive our future more pessimistically.
Things are so different now. People have tv’s in their car’s now, but won’t let their kids bike to school. When I was a kid here in SD we used to walk from Clairemont through tecolote canyon all the way to the airport. We would bike to camp Pendleton and back. Not a lot of *that* is going on anymore…