I don't think the older generation really appreciate how difficult life is for the younger. Or just how different things are from when they were younger. Maybe some things have gotten easier thanks to technology, but a lot of things have gotten substantially harder.
...and it really doesn't help that they decided to fuck us over here by voting to leave the EU. It's alright for them; they'll be dead before the fallout hits. We're the ones who are going to have to deal with it. I don't envy the generation to come, because thanks to our parents' generation, we're not going to have much of a legacy to leave them...