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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Until Boomers and Xers became the wealthiest generations and their kids were downwardly mobile, boomerang kids were not a thing. Kids could do better on their own. Now the helicopter parents are realizing that participation trophies have drawbacks.[/quote]

Well, participation trophies and stagnant wages for the middle class, health care costs that have quadrupled since 1980, skyrocketing median home prices (nearly or more than $1 million dollars in some markets), rentals snapped up for Airbnb, ruptures in previously secure job markets like tech, and slowdowns in hiring that point toward recession. But sure, participation trophies. [/quote]

Participation trophies and helicoptering capture the overall entitlement and expectations. Boomers graduated into recessions, finished grad school in recessions, lived through cycles of engineering and tech layoffs, meatless Tuesdays, gasoline wars.
People didn't expect to buy a house in their 20s in high cost areas. 
People didn't have affluent parents to go home to. They had to manage somehow.  
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