As a late millenial, I kinda disagree, maybe its just from being in a family that had computers in some form for most my childhood life. All I've seen as I've grown up are cool improvements in tech being increasingly misused, in a world where we are in a never ending recession and austerity culture and it's never ever time to have fun or relax. I don't feel like there's any meaningful contrast between the shittiness of then and the shittiness of now, except remembering that the early internet benefitted so much in its first 10-20 years from being untouched by old rich fucks and corporations.

Then I look at photographs of my parents and they were out in their late teens and twenties roaming and rocking, rather than worrying about finances and jobs and their lives being controlled, they tell tales of when you could just walk into a building and get a job and you were set - I wasn't there but it looks a lot more fulfilling than my younger days.