One notable trend in the aftermath of the great financial crisis is how many millenials who went to college then proceeded to live at home with their parents to save money for years or lived at a relative's property and paid a fraction of the rent.
In a reasonable sense this was likely a survival strategy to maintain a position in the corporate hierarchy. This massive advantage allowed many millenials the opportunity to accumulate a significant amount of capital to either payoff their student loans more freely or hoard money for a down payment on a house. Many then obtained management titles and the majority preach that they are self made. To defend their “hard work” there seems to be a tendency to smear struggling independent people that actually live paycheck to paycheck who took a greater risk by trying to move out and “be an adult”.
Due to this updated version of “haves” and “have nots”, many of your immediate supervisors will have been people who were beneficiaries of insurance payouts from death of family members, free rent, the “luxury” to work unpaid internships, inheritance and lots of other “assistance”.
This is a clear turning point of workers who opted to hoard capital this way. Those who felt societal pressure to “move out and be an adult” really may have fallen behind the curve. That pressure of being financially independent appears to be a miscalculation and the stigma to receive help from family members may have been a form of large scale propaganda.