this is half way true. when I was 20 i was made homeless because my insane mom didn't like that I didn't want her using facebook to control every aspect of my life (like who could post on my wall). I had an extremely difficult 5 years working my way up from minimum wage part time jobs to finally securing a 40k full time job and then finally getting my foot into the door of software engineering. 29 now and doing WAYY better. A lot of the issues with people living in vans is that they haven't given themselves particularly useful skills. If a lazy boomer can outcompete you, you are probably not better than a lazy boomer. I know plenty of people my age who spent something like 100k on school loans, dropping and retaking many basic classes because they partied on loan money, just to get an english/communications degree. While life isn't exactly easy, more often than not I see people's misfortune is self-inflicted. Sure, it doesnt help that the entire public school system tells you to throw your life away on some extra stupid loan for a worthless degree that they will pretend is valuable by conflating the statistics with degrees that are actually valuable, and disqualifying the numbers that would paint the real picture by some fine print exclusion.