Most Americans think the quality of life for adults under 30 years old, or Generation Y, won't be as good as it is for their baby-boomer parents, according to a new poll.

一项最新民调显示，多数美国人认为30岁以下的年轻人——也就是所谓的“Y一代”的生活质量将不如他们出生于“婴儿潮”时期的父母。

Most Americans think the quality of life for adults under 30 years old, or Generation Y, won't be as good as it is for their baby-boomer parents, according to a new poll.

More than 60 percent of people were pessimistic（悲观的，厌世的） about the future, and 71 percent of young Americans under 30 said they would rather go back in time than leap to the future.

"It's interesting how strongly people feel things are getting worse, and how strongly people are backward looking," said Michael Hogan, 35, executive online editor at Vanity Fair which conducted the survey with CBS News.

"This is a time of high unemployment, people coming out of school with very few job prospects¹（前景，预期） . The past probably seems more comforting," he added.

Although the past may seem appealing（吸引人的，动人的） for young Americans, only 50 percent of seniors over 65 said they wanted to travel back in time.

The nationwide poll of 1,167 adults, which included questions about culture, lifestyle and politics, also revealed that if given the choice to take anything with them to the afterlife（来世） , 25 percent would take a pet, 47 percent would opt² for a photo album but only nine percent wanted to take an iPhone or a Blackberry.

Despite romancing the past, people believe in rewarding the forward-minded. Thirty-three percent of those polled believe Internet entrepreneurs are most deserving of their large salaries, followed by 15 percent for sports stars and 12 percent for bankers. Only eight percent felt movie stars should get the dollars they do.

And despite a recent trip to the United States, more than three-quarters of people questioned could not identity David Cameron as the prime minister of Great Britain. Twenty seven percent might have confused him with "Avatar" director James Cameron when they thought he was a movie director.

The full results of the poll, which are published in Vanity Fair, can be found on 60MINUTES.com and VF.com.