Look at how comfortable we seem to be selling pipe dreams to our kids though.
Dreams of going to college(expensive and time consuming) and moving from friends and family and community for work that maybe pays a little better …but they might get a house, with the right future part time parent buying partner. That’s fine, but I bet it isn’t for a lot of kids(people) even if from “good” families. THe way you paint it BG, I hope almost everyone fails to launch , for their own sake.
Some people need to have different priorities than all that, even if the end looking under achiever instead of a degreed cubicle rat. Heaven forbid , our kids look a little like underachieving artist types or “only a fireman” or something like that. I just tell mine that if you want to make your hobbies your priority , you might have to learn to live on little means, but you have to take care of yourself. There are no guarantees either way.