Poignant post on the state of things

Like they say tough times make tough people. Our parents had it (relatively) easy. We've had it (at least economically) pretty tough. I've seen millennials put way more time, attention, and resources into their children than boomers ever did. I've been more and more frequently getting the sense of millennials as a sort of lost generation, dealing with the fallout from the last generation's greed, while sacrificing where we can for our kids (up to and including having fewer children to better provide for the ones we already have).