It's always a mistake to give in to Titanic Life Boat logic ("The design of the Titanic was fine, anyone could have gotten into a life boat / but could everyone get into a life boat? / what are you, a COMMUNIST?"). If you try to avoid the problem by focusing on young people, they'll just focus on a young person who made it and hold them up as proof that it's possible (see: person downthread "my daughter just bought a house"). Plenty of kids got into titanic life boats so it's fine, see? The rest just didn't hustle hard enough. Do you want society to be full of cripples who can't hustle into a lifeboat? Don't play that game.

No, if the system forces a growing fraction of people to lose we have to be honest about that, pin down why, and ask if it's really truly unsolvable. Hint: food and clothing and house construction have shrunk dramatically over time as a fraction of our economic activity. The first-principles problems did not get harder and we did not get worse at solving them. This hell is of our own design. It will hurt to solve, but it can be solved.