Nothing has changed much in life, 'you get out, what you put in', there is always those who want to find an excuse for the predicament they find themselves in and wallow around in self pity and then there are others who decide they are going to do something about it.
In Australia there is no excuse for starving, if you are handicapped you are looked after, if you are unemployed you are given money, if you are able bodied there are jobs.
Since the Howard years, we had a massive mining construction boom, that we actually had to fill cleaning positions, with fifo 457 workers from Asia.
Even now in the midst of a nation wide disaster, we have to try and import workers to pick produce our entitled unemployed don't want to do, all it appears they want to do these days is bitch about how hard it is to buy a house in Sydney and Melbourne.
Well maybe they should saddle up and head bush for a job, the mining companies are still struggling to get workers, there seems to be a common word in this thread "work", it has become just another dirty four letter word theses days.
The other chestnut is that older workers wont leave their jobs, so younger people can take them, but they fixed that by lifting the retirement age to 67 might as well blame Howard for that as well.
It's about time the millennials realised there is no one but themselves responsible for their outcome, chase the money, not the lifestyle that comes later.