Older people love to talk about the sensitive nature and "snowflakes" that make up the current generation. Yet these are the same people who could pay their tuition for a year through a part time job, could make a living wage to support a family without a high school diploma from a factory job AND buy a house.
The current generations don't have these luxuries. They carry more of a burden than the previous generation despite the dismissive cynicism of the "back in my day"ers.
As already mentioned, the issue is that the wealth for the current generation has greatly shifted compared to the previous who had a much easier time navigating the world.
This is mostly for white people who got to enjoy the benefits of this society and then lose it.
Black people as a whole did not get to enjoy the ups before the downs as much as whites.
In our case, there are other issues that we have to deal with.