Good morning, I’m a university lecturer on a zero hours contract and I just ran out of money today. Oh and my rent went up.
Have a nice day.
>as the prosperity of the next generation is reserved to those who can inherit it from their predecessors
And that is a big part of the problem, as May with her ‘dementia tax’ found out. It not just the wealthier boomers (remembering 1/3 of boomers rent) but those who stand to inherit from them that fought tooth and nail to preserve the status quo.
When it comes to tackling wealth inequality, you need to ‘follow the money’, everything else is a distraction.
We just closed down youngsters from working in order to save old people. Anyone surprised by this?
What an excellent, succint summary, with sources and everything.
Will be my go to reply to a lot of discussions from now on.
My Grandma asked me why I just couldn’t get a house, I asked her if she knew how much house prices were, she said she hadn’t checked in a long time. Apparently she bought her house for £800 in the 60s. She was astonished the the cheapest house in the neighbourhood was £210,000.
Interesting and also distressing to see that a lot of young people lost their jobs in the pandemic and have moved to working from stable salaried positions into insecure work like zero hours contracts and agency working.
Young people also need job security – how are they supposed to “stop watching Netflix and eat tesco value baked beans” in order to get on the housing ladder…
The really worrying thing is that once the rich have their money it’s very difficult to even attempt to rebalance the situation.
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Good morning, I’m a university lecturer on a zero hours contract and I just ran out of money today. Oh and my rent went up.
Have a nice day.
>as the prosperity of the next generation is reserved to those who can inherit it from their predecessors
And that is a big part of the problem, as May with her ‘dementia tax’ found out. It not just the wealthier boomers (remembering 1/3 of boomers rent) but those who stand to inherit from them that fought tooth and nail to preserve the status quo.
When it comes to tackling wealth inequality, you need to ‘follow the money’, everything else is a distraction.
We just closed down youngsters from working in order to save old people. Anyone surprised by this?
What an excellent, succint summary, with sources and everything.
Will be my go to reply to a lot of discussions from now on.
My Grandma asked me why I just couldn’t get a house, I asked her if she knew how much house prices were, she said she hadn’t checked in a long time. Apparently she bought her house for £800 in the 60s. She was astonished the the cheapest house in the neighbourhood was £210,000.
Interesting and also distressing to see that a lot of young people lost their jobs in the pandemic and have moved to working from stable salaried positions into insecure work like zero hours contracts and agency working.
Young people also need job security – how are they supposed to “stop watching Netflix and eat tesco value baked beans” in order to get on the housing ladder…
The really worrying thing is that once the rich have their money it’s very difficult to even attempt to rebalance the situation.