So much of that cohort is just coasting, lives with their parents, can't drive, working dead-end service industry jobs at best ... which is normally fine for people in their 20s. Still, I don't think the economy will continue to do a good job absorbing "young professionals" who didn't play every card right before attending/graduating from college, as it used to when there were more entry points and cleaner internal ladders. Right now, the severity of that situation is kind of hidden by the fact that parents raised a lot of those almost-NEETs (and continue to receive support/housing from parents) whose net worths are high enough to cover for a lot of their kids' young adult needs, but not enough money to fund retirement/end-of-life care for the parents plus perpetual financial support for their adult children. Many of those adult children also have student debt. This is a problem everyone is basically aware of, and which is discussed online incessantly, but usually with vague and alarming abstractions (like "they'll be serfs forever," "it'll be like Brazil," etc.). But my genuine question is like... what do people think it'll actually look like? I can't imagine people actually imagining massive breadlines filled with people with computer science degrees, or a mass suicide epidemic? Are those actual, plausible outcomes? If not, what is? Specific predictions, not vague abstractions.