I just got back from a trip to France where gas is over $9/gallon and toll road fees are many times what they are here. They also don't have auto parts stores like here and very stringent regulations on what you can or can't do to modify a vehicle.
I'm sure most of these whiners have never traveled to a foreign country. Visit literally ANYWHERE else in the world and you will realize that no matter how bad things get here we still have it way better than most of the rest of the world. People have just gotten spoiled and soft and also don't realize that the economy of the 1950s-1990s was a special case that will never happen again.
Complaining is stupid. Get out and do what you can to fix the problems you see in the world, understand your limitations, and just GO. Ironic these days I hear older people complaining more than people my age (20s-40s); past 30 years have generally sucked so it's nothing new for us young folk we don't really have "the good old days" to look back on and tbh it's really frickin annoying to listen to old people whine and compare back to "their time". It ain't your time anymore, get over it.