It's always possible to get ahead if you're young and ambitious. Most of them however get stuck in place because they think it's still the 90's. They're chasing degrees instead of building stock portfolios or hosting their own AI or babysitting boomers and stealing their silverware or any of a hundred other things they could be doing instead. Nowadays all you get out of having a job is a little bit of extra spending money. It's basically a hobby.