It really baffles me why some think it's okay to be shitty to a generation of young people who gave up THE MOST to protect their elders, have had THE CRUELLEST possible transition to adulthood, are getting THE LEAST amount of state help, and are facing THE WORST future prospects.
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Whilst it is irritating to be continually battered by whippersnappers who grew up with McDonalds, cheap air travel, cheap money, central heating, video games, mobile phones, the internet and avocado bloody toast, it is PARTICULARLY annoying of them to have a point on housing costs.
Every "generation" has had to live with being exploited by people like them.
The clue is in the name: capitalism rewards capital of enterprises which increase profits. Which means, amongst other things, reducing costs. And since most people are costs…
If you haven't been behaving in the manner described, then it's not a criticism of you, so you shouldn't take it as such
State investment in young people has definitely dropped + many older people voted for this + Brexit.
That is demonstrable fact
I honestly don’t think the true, awful impact of current-state social media on mental health will be understood for decades.
Same people who were excluded from Spaffer & Sunak’s furlough scheme.
Goldfish would be better.
Ohhhkaaayyy then.
Who was so racist they ignored the suffering of black America that now effects 60%+ of America?!
I am generalizing, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qh9lH3NOkA
"6th form politics" then loped off before I could thank him as my view is young people only inspire with their grace and courage so it wasnt the jibe he thought it was all said and done.
The government ?
A sub group of ‘ the people ‘ ?
Who ?
Grandparents and parents?
I always thought progress was about making things better for those that come after us.
So I deserve all the things.
You have just made an arse of yourself.
What a disappointment your attitude would be to them.
Kinda made an arse of yourself there eh?
They wanted better for all of us.
Don't be so bone headedly ignorant.
Truly.
That makes you a martial piss artist.
Well look in the mirror and start dealing then.
Entitled Netflix viewing bastard.
If you are going to take the moral high ground, maybe be more accurate in your response?
Don’t you think there should be far higher bar than child labour when we look at these things?
We were all so happy then. Well I wasn’t born but you know what I mean?
No foreigners like Alex over here, sticking up for these young woke snowflakes.
You beaut!
My grandparent signed up at 15.
(Whereas, being 66, I attended a state-funded school to 18, then had free tuition, and a maintenance grant to go to university until I was 22. Then got MIRAS when buying my 1st flat for 3x my salary at 24.)
So…maybe *you* should stop whining, Fenny?
Have you seen a doctor about it?
You're a credit to their efforts.
The “massive entitlement” in this exchange is from you, hijacking stuff other people did before you were even born. What they suffered & what they achieved is theirs, not yours, & you’re not entitled to use those things against others.
Simple typo
No point in engaging and getting vexed just get it out and walk on.
. I believe the young folks can save America.
The pettiest gerontocracy. Squeezing everything they can because they’ve been duped all their lives waiting for trickle down economics.
We need to accept that there are some complete uncaring assholes in society because that is what they've witnessed and grown up in.
I'm 49 and a lot of my generation are quite simply horrible people.
Turned everything into me, me, me
Also all the younger people who failed to vote in 2016 at all should also bear some of the blame for Brexit.
I continue to blame the politicians, cynical opportunists and self-styled 'disruptors' *who weren't 'old' at all* for lying, spinning & otherwise putting disinformation or plain lies out there for the hard of thinking. Also for the majority of msm (foreign) owners for promoting it.
https://bsky.app/profile/timobetcke.me/post/3lfz5srh75224
https://web.archive.org/web/20220121141216/http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2019/01/29/is-britain-undeveloping-before-our-eyes-part-i/
The lame excuse “ we can’t afford it” and the trite household budget analogy boil my piss
Like citizen's united, zoning laws to prevent affordable housing, commodification of human needs, or privatizing SSI?
Meanwhile:
If you don’t like the way your kids & grand kids have turned out then take a good, hard look at yourself.
They’ve all grown up in the world YOU & YOUR generation created.
It’s essentially YOUR fault so start taking lumps off yourself.
Now they demand the younger generation pay them good pensions even though there are only five workers to every pensioner.
A lot of ex mining towns are still destitute.
The youngsters need to get out and bloody vote!
We need them to.
A system designed to reward capital by ingeniously lowering costs. Which is a problem for the majority of people, who are a cost.
Simply get rid of the triple-lock.
Give everyone the £12k pa they feel entitled too, and if people are rich enough then at lot will go back to government in tax anyway.
I am not saying that wealthy pensioners forfeit any state pension. I am saying that income above £12k (coincidentally approx the same figure) is subject to income tax.