"It feels like the current job crisis is artificial and specifically intended to lower people's salary expectations and increase their work output"... bingo.

It's awful when billionaire boomers say stuff like "The pie isn't shrinking, anyone can grow the pie." Meanwhile, on the ground, it feels like literal Hunger Games or Squid Game and young people have literally 0 self-esteem or hope left to squeeze out... So the politicians bring in starry-eyed immigrants who at least have 'hope' which can be juiced and help to further suppress wages... All while millennials are called 'snowflakes' for complaining about the situation.

The problem isn't that millennials are unwilling to support previous generations in their retirement, we are... but we are not allowed to because the game we play is a race to the bottom for our own survival, not one about value creation. The system is not letting us be efficient, it's forcing us into bureaucracy and politics; that's where the money is coming from.