I’m a ‘millennial’ (just about, by most definitions) and my parents didn’t live through rationing, so I doubt the parents of hardly any did, so it’s pretty much completely irrelevant.
My parents are quite aware/sad about the fact that their generation was in most ways incredibly lucky and that the progress in living standards generation by generation that was expected to continue forever has in fact reversed.
To my mind there is no reason to assume that we in Britain/ the west should always automatically be wealthy but it’s a terrible shame that it’s the poorest in society bearing the brunt of it.
I’m not bitter about not being part of that generation but it is galling when many of the people who have enjoyed so many of those benefits – literally some of the luckiest people in human history – are such moany, miserable, selfish, entitled, small-minded, ungrateful ****s who are making things much worse than they need to be for future generations.