They’ve got it all. So why do today’s young whine so much?

Millennials get a bad press, and no wonder. look at them! Or to be more accurate, look at them through my vinegary gaze.

They are always wafting around in a daze, taking pictures of rainbows in puddles or scrolling through their phones with the intensity of a snake charmer staring down a cobra.

They spend money they should be saving on ridiculous pumpkin spiced lattes from overpriced coffee shops, or ordering Deliveroo pizzas while worrying the wi-fi signal is going down in their safe space.

like meerkats, they move around together in self- sufficient little gangs, sharing the same acceptable leftist opinions, uninterested and unable to connect emotionally with the world outside.

no snowflake born in the past two decades of the 20th century seems to know how to dress a wound or put up a shelf or make supper out of an onion, a baked potato and a tofu sausage.

But they do all love Jeremy Corbyn because he is a freedom fighter and a vegetarian who digs Venezuela and wears corduroy ironically, just like them. They can only communicate within and beyond their circle via their smartphones or other handheld devices, and even then only in cryptic acronyms.

They live by the maxim of Yolo (you only live once) and often suffer from FOMO (fear of missing out), even if they often have problems coping irl (in real life).

NOT all Millennials are like this, of course — don’t all msg me at once, haterz — but a recent survey did more to reinforce the stereotype than to knock it down.

When questioned for a study by an electronics company about aspects of the daily grind that wear them down, the little darlings said their chief First World problems were worrying about avocados not being ripe for their hipster brunches, or that supplies of prosecco might run out.

Just like they did last summer in london (hold me now, i’m still trembling).

They also worried about having to wait in all day for online deliveries, forgetting their online passwords, leaving their phones at home and not getting enough ‘likes’ on instagram. The researchers, working with a behavioural psychologist from Goldsmiths, University of london, then compared these trivial worries with those faced by people (now aged 50 or over) two decades ago.

We are, as The Who once pointed out, talking ’ bout my generation.

Respondents in 1997 weren’t worried about ripening fruits or vegetables, they were concerned with sweating the big stuff — about having a happy relationship, earning enough to pay the bills and buying a home.

Other issues included affording a holiday — you are not going to believe this, kids, but going abroad was not mandatory and no one ever had a gap year.

another gripe from my generation was having to get up from the sofa to turn over the television channels, which was indeed a right old pain. still, there was less dissatisfaction among the young back then, in a time which already seems like ancient history.

We weren’t constantly bombarded with envy inducing social media images of the lifestyles of the rich and famous, neither were we choosing our sex- dates on Tinder, or buying things we couldn’t afford simply by clicking a button.

sarah Dale’s long- lost wallet is the perfect example of how times have changed; it is a relic from another age, as fascinating as the stone age purse covered in dog teeth unearthed in Germany five years ago. almost!

now working as a top lawyer, Miss Dale was a law student when she mislaid her wallet behind the radiator of a Manchester nightclub, where it has lain untouched for 30 years.

That doesn’t say much for their hygiene standards, but let’s not dwell.

The wallet contained 12p, a £50 Midland Bank cheque card, some photographic id, a pay slip, a library card and a residents’ association card. This reveals that young sarah went out into the world, met her neighbours, borrowed and read books, had both a job to get her through university and a savings account.

note that there were no credit or debit cards. not only were there fewer things to buy back then, controls such as cheque cards made it harder for young people to get into debt.

Few youngsters had credit cards or flexible friends, nor were they allowed or encouraged to rack up huge bills on the never-never. now the country is groaning with debt, on both national and personal levels — and that is not a change for the good.

We didn’t have as much back then, and the only fear of avocado we had was a brief period when it was fashionable to have avocado coloured bathroom suites — which everyone hated.

however, i think life was much easier and more fun than it is today for the snowflakey Millennials who have so much more in terms of choice, but who seem so hidebound by their technology, instead of getting out there and living a life, like we did.

no wonder they are so annoying.