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I think that's just because boomers own all the assets. Assets are pretty much happinesses.
Young adults didn't have much assets in the past either. I suspect a strong factor here is rather that due to high rents for apartments in population centers, young adults are forced to stay with their parents which can be quite miserable at that age.
I don't think that's it either. Young adults have been living with their parents for generations and in many parts of the world that is still the norm. You just go from dependent, to independent, to caretaker of your parents as they age. My own opinion on this is 1) social media. Before we only compared ourselves to our immediate peers. Now we are exposed to millions of people online. Especially when combined with the insidious algorithms made to keep you on these platforms. 2) The constant feeling of impending doom that makes us feel like we don't have a future. Makes everything we do feel pointless.
Apples to oranges, no? In many parts of the world gays are executed on sight, doesn't mean it's what the westerners are used to nor does it mean we should adopt it.
This is also massively overblown "oriental medicine" type rhetoric btw, not accusing you of it but traveling to places like Russia, China, Europe etc. it's easy to observe that living with one's parents is the norm only for the poorest of the poor, it's much less cultural and correlates much more with class (Marxist definition).