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"You keep on pull'n on them bootstraps, working hard for the man, and one soon you'll get that raise. Maybe."
It's right and wrong at the same time.
Yes, you do need to do this shit yourself. In fact, that's part of the real problem. The boomers didn't do it themselves, their parents set-up a society that would institutionally support them through their entire lives. Zoomers have no choice but to support themselves because the institutions are against them.
The raise actually isn't the point. Working at companies for more than a few years actually tends to prevent your ability to get increased wages. You have to move from company to company for better wages. Companies almost never reward loyalty. The bigger they are, the worse they are with loyalty.
Strangely enough, if you want to stick with a company, you should actually stick with a small business that has a high growth rate. That's actually a business that will reward loyalty, promote merit, give responsibility, and give raises when times are good. The problem is you can only find it at those businesses, and it means taking a huge risk to get a job with small employers.
The problem is that kids can't be expected to prepare for problems they don't know exist. Schools and parents should be teaching financial literacy, but I think we both know that public institutions are training young people to be Consoomers and their parents are too busy being wage slaves to teach their kids any better. It's a vicious cycle, which is why I like Andrew Tate and (for the most part) "hustle culture" that at least gets Zoomers thinking about money and financial independence. Regardless, it's absurd that financial literacy isn't a part of American culture, seeing as we pride ourselves on our alleged, purported, rumored, so-called "Capitalist" economy.
The problem is that "Hustle Culture" is actually still operating in the system and not rejecting it outright and building something independent.
It's like working to get a higher wage, rather than starting a business. More good (and potentially more money) can be done by the later, but if you keep focusing on the former you'll still end up a wage slave.
You're right, they can't be expected to prepare for problems they don't know exist, and that's really the level of revolution they need to take. You have to abandon all current ways of knowing and traditions and start from scratch, assuming all known opinion is wrong. That's pretty fucking crazy, especially coming from the political right (since it's an inherently anti-conservative & anti-traditional argument), but it is what they have to do. Oddly enough, because the technically conservative stance would be to follow along with the guidance given by the leftist institutions, the kids would end up as Paleo-Cons.