Yeah, there's definitely a failure/refusal to acknowledge that the ways in which broad social trends are changing due to "millennial culture" are by and large the result of an astronomical increase in the percentage of the population in the age group that lives in serious poverty and has for most if not all of their lives.

That said, academics (as opposed to reporters) are doing much better these days at recognizing that poverty has always had these kinds cultural markers and that a gener as tion made up almost entirely of people in poverty will lead to a social shift towards the culture of poverty.

So at least we're not completely SoL I guess?