spent the weekend with my granddad, he is 85 now and got married at 25

he started the family in a poor, socialist country, in a depth of the cold war, with no real career prospects or financial security

average 25 year old men these days are 10x better off and don’t even consider starting families

feels backwards 

Values are degraded, you granddad was poor and his life was hard, but he still cared about virtue, about his responsibilities as a man.
Nowadays people have everything but just want to raise pets and stuff, because they don't care at all about those values that built people like you granddad.