<story><title>Revealed: the 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/revealed-30-year-economic-betrayal-dragging-down-generation-y-income</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>forgetsusername</author><text>I sort of went down the rabbit hole in The Guardian&amp;#x27;s Generation Y coverage, and ended up in an article with Millennials confessing their greatest fears:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;“I worry that I’m never going to live up to my own expectations. I live in terror that I will wake up on my 50th birthday in a perfectly ordinary house, with a perfectly ordinary family and unremarkable job – living an unremarkable, ordinary, average life.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If these are your biggest fears in life, take a step back to realize what you&amp;#x27;ve got.  Entitlement and bizarre expectations about what &amp;quot;life&amp;quot; is are to blame here.  Not every one is above average.</text></comment>
<story><title>Revealed: the 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/revealed-30-year-economic-betrayal-dragging-down-generation-y-income</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>radicalbyte</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m on the edge of this group (1980&amp;#x2F;1982-wife); living in the UK house prices were rising twice as fast as my wage. If I was just 2-3 years older I could have bought a house for 80k instead of the 250k I had to pay years later (two double-median incomes).&lt;p&gt;This has given my drive I didn&amp;#x27;t have before: I actively manage my career (next step being starting for myself) and have feeling for investments&amp;#x2F;planning that I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have otherwise had.</text></comment>