Ihr Raecker! Wollt ihr ewig leben?

As Frederick the Great of Prussia is supposed to have said when he found his guards cowering behind a wall during a battle.

You scoundrels! Do you want to live forever?

We have left young people with the prospect of a life of debt, poverty and insecurity. And then we castigate them for not thinking of the long term. And having seen the life of (some) old people, I'm not at all sure I want to live another 25 years myself, for I know there are worse things than dying.