In turn you should consider yourself lucky you don't have a HS senior in your house right now. All I can say. Because the part about the economy being in the toilet isn't lost on them either, as they enter adulthood at the worst possible time since 1930.
This experience is likely to color their attitudes for the rest of their lives. My parents lived through the depression, and they never forgot what that was like.
Edit: I have no idea why St, Ward's post got quoted. :shrug: