We no longer have any guarantees that our parents had. We no longer have the resources or lack of debt from our previous generation of careless expenditure.
In lot of ways millenials are fucked, but looks like more so for countries that put all their eggs in one basket.
"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel."
So it would appear that amongst their other concerns, the Saudis also need to start producing their own fatalistic proverbs, rather than importing them from Dubai.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_bin_Saeed_Al_Maktoum
I often wonder just how bad the current generations will have it when compared to other recent generations. Will it be worse than those generations who lost so many and so much to WWI and WWII? Hard to tell except eventually in retrospect, but interesting to ponder.
My dad had to leave Germany where he was born to escape the nazis. The past wasn't all that great.
On the other hand the millennials may have the singularity coming which I think will be quite a cool, once in history, thing to witness.