"A hedge against feeling stuck and dull and cheated by life" So you 'hedge" against this by working more? When I'm feeling "stuck and dull and cheated by life", I go and do something fun or interesting. If you need a second job to pay bills, you're not cheated by life: you're simply surviving. Millenials are more screwed up than I thought...

"...most of us are a bunch of Jon Snow know-nothings." I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. Are you calling us all bastards?