But paying off student loans probably did.

My point is that "the market did great" means investors did great; doesn't mean that everyone did great.

This thread is about investing.

This thread relates to investing, but more specifically it is debating whether or not the following fact

> The market has done even better in the last 10 years than in the 90's

is an adequate response to address the GGGGGP's claim that

> that ladder has become more difficult to climb. But hey - what do I know? I'm just a lazy millennial who's now living through his second major recession, with the first one landing directly on when I was entering the work world FT.

Nobody here is denying your claim about the market performance.