From listening to those students who go on about the lucky generation, and it's certainly not all of them, you could be forgiven for thinking teenagers of earlier times had money dripping out their pockets. Nothing could be further from the truth. I live in a student city and had a lot to do with them through my activities. From my observations, the students have more to throw around than the teenagers of my day even though most were working full time. Nobody started on adult wages or even close. The grass is always greener, but when looking backwards - it's luminous green with spotlights.