Respect of the young for the old is quite natural.

That young man can't get the sort of jobs he wants and doesn't have any friends; he's really at a loss.

It would be a shame for a young man to be at loose ends just because he can't get the kind of job he wants.

Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.

When it's cold, young people do nothing but drink.