Not just parents generation, our generation.
I don’t play the stock market, I’m not skilled enough for it, but I do have a stocks/share ISA, but I’m also not against spending money to make it.
Many people I know will happily continue to pay interest on an item, but have savings which is less than the interest on credit.
They have a 20% credit card vs a 0.5% interest savings.
And little things like that can help in the long run.