Worse for sure.

At my age, they were already married with kids and had enough to build a dream house in a decent town. Both had stable jobs that were considered good despite neither having a college degree.

I'm in a decent job that pays me (on paper) more money than my parents used to make, but I had to get my master's degree to get here, and I'm still trying to pay off 8 years of student debt (though I'm getting closer each paycheck).

Between that, rent, and the sheer cost of everything these days, my partner and I are nowhere close to the point where we could afford a house, and we definitely could not afford to have even one kid, let alone three.

We're at least not living paycheck to paycheck, but there have been industry layoffs left and right that have me feeling like any day could be my turn. I'd love to have more of a safety net in that situation, but there's not all that much left over for us to put towards savings or retirement. Meanwhile, my parents are retired now, while I'm fully expecting to work until I die.

Edit: Forgot to clarify that this is the US, if the existence of student debt wasn't already a giveaway.

Better because my dad died before he was my age, and that threw my mom into a depression and harmed her for a long time. U.S.

Better.

Canada.

Worse in that I don’t have a house and probably never will.

Better in that I know more about how to treat my physical and mental health than they ever knew about theirs.

Worse in that I don’t have as much money as they had at my age.

Better in that I don’t need to worry about leaving money to anyone.

Better than my mom who grew up on a small dairy and very poor. Not as good as my father who was raised by a very affluent doctor in a very rich neighborhood.

And it's mainly because of my mom.

Australia, I would say a touch worse, though I've made better use if it.

In Canada. Worse financially, but socially/mentally we're better off. My parents have none of the tools I have to deal with shit on an emotional level, they instead just shove it in a box and try to forget about it. This is how they raised me, but thank fuck for the internet and people I met that know better.

Well, all of this ignores the destruction and probably death of the Earths environment which has such an overarching presence it had to be ignored to provide a meaningful answer.

*I suppose ones financial situation isn't tied to which generation they are, but to how much emotional damage their parents inflicted (which is correlated to socio-economic status IIRC). IMO, if my parents weren't so permanently fucked up I would've had the mental wherewithal to attend University at an earlier age so I likely would be graduated already. Would probably still be just as fucked tho.

A lot better. Brazilian millennial.

My parents quit school to do manual work at ~10yo and barely got to learn how to read. I did work on my early teens too but very light stuff. By my mid 20s I already reached a very comfortable life.

Far worse, but that tells little without asking for the age as well as location. US, for what that's worth.

Significantly better, actually, but it helps that I didn't spend my teens and 20s doing hard drugs. Uhh... in the US.

I never talked to my parent about this, but I imagine way better. My dad is one of the earlier master degree holder in China. He got his PhD much later; I believe around his 40s.

At my age, my dad is an entry level doctor and my mom an entry level nurse. They live in a room of 10 square meter assigned by the hospital they work in.

I am at the end of my 20s and is an assistant professor; a very busy job, but nevertheless stable, which is an excellent perk in this economy. The pay is not bad (not as much as industry though) and the work is really fulfilling. The only unfortunate part is that I almost always need to work overtime. It is not uncommon for me to work from waking up to going to bed, if not working into midnight.

Hard to say, but I think so? (USA)

I make a lot more money than they did, but am often very stressed because my job is relatively high-stakes.

I have a happier marriage, which is probably the most important factor, but have found it quite difficult to be a parent. Obviously nobody else feels this way 🤪 but for real, I think parent responsibilities have gotten totally out of hand - I used to roam the streets until dark at 10 years old, but now you get the cops called on you if your 12-year-old walks down the street unaccompanied.

My parents lived through the Vietnam War and Iraq/etc, but the world still feels significantly less stable than even during those times. I worry my children are going to grow up in an openly pedophilic, labor-obsessed dystopia (as if we aren't already there) - the stress is astounding.

When my parents were my age they had three kids and a house. Meanwhile I'm here with three houses and one kid.

My parents have passed, but I'd like to have more close family. We had a hard time making that first kid, and we're not getting any younger.

(Scandinavia)