There are two types of millennials. There is one type which doesn’t trust anything and the other which trusts everything.
The first type went into the business world and saw people getting burned, the second can’t take reality given to it from the first at its full harshness. They can’t accept that the darker view of the world is actually right because it doesn’t feel good.
As I wrote earlier, the older you get, the more you (should) realize that often the more distressing view is the correct one. It’s back to the two pills again. You lose faith in “the average” when you see repeated instances of events that run counter to meritocracy.