It's a major problem. My parents were much different than the typical baby boomer, therefore I'm different than the typical milenial, I've taken advantage of the many opportunities I've been given.

Others aren't so fortunate because they don't have parents to point them in the right direction. The marketing done by universities and indoctrination in high school have led millions of milenials to get worthless degrees for 5 times the market value of their degree. Now, they can't jobs in what is a tough job market for recent grads and have tons of debt.

Sure, there are plenty of opportunities but, you have to have the right training and preparation to take advantage, otherwise you're making $35k at some job you think is cool because they have ping pong tables in the break room, while your entire paycheck goes to student loans.

This is where parenting comes in 18 y/os aren't equipped to make decisions about taking on $100k in debt and choosing a major. The pursue your dreams and only find a job your passionate about crap taught in schools by baby boomers and unwise parents has led milenials to believe it and get humanities degrees for 50k/year private schools. Without good parenting to inform students about the crushing burden that interest can cause and directing children to research the employability of their degree there isn't much hope of an 18 y/o taking full advantage of the opportunities im front of them.

I got direction and was lucky. My siblings and I will all graduate or have graduated with graduate degrees in employable fields with minimal to debt because we had common finance taught to us and looked at the price tag before committing to a degree program.

A bunch want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg but a) don't want to learn to code and b) aren't brilliant like he is.