Because, that's exactly what I said, that there are no poor Americans...right. You can acknowledge, at the very least, that living standards are much higher now than in the 80s, 90s or 00s...and every decade before.

They're not. Wages in the US have been flat for thirty years, social mobility is down, student debt load is up, this generation of young adults will have a far harder time finding housing than their parents did, life expectancy is down. Most places in the world are better off than in the 1990's, but the United States is not one of them.

So, you're saying that technology has not positively effected people's lives? Are you saying that the number of people with access to the internet, computers, tech in general...better clothing and food is...not better than it was in the 90s? Did you even live in the 90s? Things that were once reserved for only the richest of the rich are now in the hands of the poorest of the poor. There has been enormous deflation in several realms that have absolutely improved people's lives or at the least improved their living standards. Almost all of your complaints have simple explanations behind them as well, and some of them aren't actually that bad.

The majority of student debt is held by a very very small percentage of overall students, and many of them came from wealthy families or are going into very rich fields.

The average debt is substantial if you consider over 30k substantial.

Professional students obviously will have substantially more. But most professional school loans are private and not federal as there is a cap.

Also I believe your argument along the lines of you don't have it as bad as your grandfather did therefore you aren't poor is a fallacy.

I never said your grandfather (though I did use my grand parents as an anecdote to point how far society has come)...I said, literally 10 years ago, even 20 years ago. Life is better now; and once again, most students only carry around ~$5K in student debt, the vast majority of student debt is carried by 10% of students. There is no way you can convince me that your living standards are now lower than they were in the 90s or 10 years ago; everyone is living in nostalgia for the past...people have been saying "the good ole days" forever, and yet lives continue to be improved and poor people are lifted from poverty despite this longing for the "good ole days."

The flatness might be going on 40 years now. People were saying 30 years like 10 years ago.