We’ve just had 15 years of corruption and austerity from the Tories
What was that famous quote from Thatcher?
“There is no such thing as society”
They cunts on the right still believe that
We don’t think it, we know it.
36 is still young, right?
I see a lot of those views expressed in my workplace. Not just by young people though
> “If mainstream politics cannot offer normal people normal homes”, as the writer James Sean Dickson puts it, “normal people look towards the political extremes”.
Im 30 and ive known this since i was around 18, as much as id like to still be considered young i think it’s fair to say its crumbled a while ago now.
Yeah I’m 25, I’ve got no faith in the future of this country at all.
I agree young Brits think the social contract is crumbling…. But that article is complete bollocks, starting with a French meme, taking a detour to talk about the “deano” meme then ending with a meme about aberdonians having their chips stolen by seagulls.
*Nicolas finds his antithesis in another stock figure of British meme-culture, Deano. Unlike Nicolas, Deano is upwardly mobile. For him, the promise of the social contract comes through: he gets his Barratt newbuild, his implants wife, his astroturf garden, his shiny teeth.*
It’s over. None of the wealth trickled down.
Lol mentioning John Gault and Tyler Durden.
They sure know their audience.
Wait a minute, some people actually think the social contract is still a thing? And folk call me deluded.
No think about it, it is crumbling and has been crumbling for decades.
The deal offered to previous generations was snatched away.
Right-wing toilet paper.
“The social contract is failing” – Right wing media funded by millionaires with the aim of breaking the social contract.
Social Contract isn’t crumbling. It’s been ripped up to pieces and your leaders will be demanding task completion as and when they see fit.
Politicians run nothing. They do what they are told and the spin doctors do the rest. It’s all a show. Our collective wealth must always be syphoned off or the power dynamic would change as our lives would get easier and people would have more time to better educate themselves.
Let’s see…
Born in 81
Went to primary school during the Thatcher years, schools falling apart from neglect.
Went to uni the first year tuition fees were reintroduced.
Tried to buy a house in 2008. No luck there.
Had children just in time for the Tories to come back and kill off child tax credits.
I’m 43 and every successive government has told me that we need austerity and pain to make things better, still waiting.
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Old Brits think that too.
The problem – and it is a problem – is a tiny minority of greed- and power-driven sociopaths.
Until we deal with them, things will never change for the better.
>His taxes prop up social housing; what he’s left with is scarcely enough to cover his rent.
If only his taxes DID go to support large amounts of social building. Competition from warm comfortable public sector homes drives down private rents. Thatcher’s decision to abandon public housing is why Nick’s rent in the private sector is so expensive.
That headline would work if the last two words were meant to be the answer, rather than the article source. That rag has pushed and enabled the toxic ideology that eroded the social contract in the first place.
The gulf is going to widen int he next 20 years with the boomers passing on wealth to their kids. It’s going to appear futile for those not in the inheritocracy to be able to bridge the gap with hard work alone. At the same time, there is an increasing class of society that appears to be more useless than anything I remember from my youth, or that I heard about from parents or grandparents. Not only do an increasing number have no employment skills, they frequently have no domestic skills either – they cant cook, they cant clean, they cant repair, they can’t look after their kids. With tech advances further depleting employment opportunities, and concentrating wealth in the hands of the few who are lucky enough to own the right assets – society will develop an obsolete underclass, and nasty things are going to happen.
If it makes you feel better the social contract is broken everywhere.
Capitalism needs to stop.
To imply that it is merely thought of and not just a fact makes it seem like the paper/writer thinks it’s just some sort of perception problem.
I suppose it’s difficult for these folks to understand the sheer magnitude of the betrayal when they’ve had their entire life handed to them from aught.
Social contract- what a fucking joke. They took everything and pulled up the drawbridge behind them.
Of course it is, my parents and grandparents generation (not mine but other people’s)
Had a wage that bought a house and raised a family I can barely support myself working 60 hours a week
What makes it all hopeless is to see the lack of accountability by almost everyone in power, at any level. The corruption is rampant and nobody is being punished for the most horrifics things. Just the idiots lke you and me are meat for jail or fines. Everyone else, in both extremes (poor and rich) and untouchable.
Because it is?
The police have been neutered so as not to be a deterrent any more.
The NHS has been dripped dry leaving people waiting for basic GP appointments and months sometimes years for more complicated treatment.
Houses prices continue to rise despite them having been unaffordable for years.
Towns and cities up and down the country are filled to the brim with empty storefronts as people cant afford to shop in their local businesses.
Income and wealth inequality continue to rise to the point of absurdity.
And this is just right now.
In the near future we are looking at :
Massive drops in government taxable income as the baby boomers and gen x retire , going from giving into the pot through working tax, to drawing down in pension and the general healthcare costs of getting old.
The ongoing effects of climate change will continue to make life more difficult.
And we are heading toward a drop in birth rates because millenials zoomers and gen alpha feel as though the current situation is not conducive to raising a child.
And the very real possibility of the pension system either collapsing, the age being raised to a point of uselessness or the actual payouts being pathetic.
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No shit
We’ve just had 15 years of corruption and austerity from the Tories
What was that famous quote from Thatcher?
“There is no such thing as society”
They cunts on the right still believe that
We don’t think it, we know it.
36 is still young, right?
I see a lot of those views expressed in my workplace. Not just by young people though
> “If mainstream politics cannot offer normal people normal homes”, as the writer James Sean Dickson puts it, “normal people look towards the political extremes”.
yeah, that’s about right.
article links to this report: https://archive.ph/C3Sqo
Which has somewhat concerning findings.
Im 30 and ive known this since i was around 18, as much as id like to still be considered young i think it’s fair to say its crumbled a while ago now.
Yeah I’m 25, I’ve got no faith in the future of this country at all.
I agree young Brits think the social contract is crumbling…. But that article is complete bollocks, starting with a French meme, taking a detour to talk about the “deano” meme then ending with a meme about aberdonians having their chips stolen by seagulls.
*Nicolas finds his antithesis in another stock figure of British meme-culture, Deano. Unlike Nicolas, Deano is upwardly mobile. For him, the promise of the social contract comes through: he gets his Barratt newbuild, his implants wife, his astroturf garden, his shiny teeth.*
It’s over. None of the wealth trickled down.
Lol mentioning John Gault and Tyler Durden.
They sure know their audience.
Wait a minute, some people actually think the social contract is still a thing? And folk call me deluded.
No think about it, it is crumbling and has been crumbling for decades.
The deal offered to previous generations was snatched away.
Right-wing toilet paper.
“The social contract is failing” – Right wing media funded by millionaires with the aim of breaking the social contract.
Social Contract isn’t crumbling. It’s been ripped up to pieces and your leaders will be demanding task completion as and when they see fit.
Politicians run nothing. They do what they are told and the spin doctors do the rest. It’s all a show. Our collective wealth must always be syphoned off or the power dynamic would change as our lives would get easier and people would have more time to better educate themselves.
Let’s see…
Born in 81
Went to primary school during the Thatcher years, schools falling apart from neglect.
Went to uni the first year tuition fees were reintroduced.
Tried to buy a house in 2008. No luck there.
Had children just in time for the Tories to come back and kill off child tax credits.
I’m 43 and every successive government has told me that we need austerity and pain to make things better, still waiting.
[deleted]
Old Brits think that too.
The problem – and it is a problem – is a tiny minority of greed- and power-driven sociopaths.
Until we deal with them, things will never change for the better.
>His taxes prop up social housing; what he’s left with is scarcely enough to cover his rent.
If only his taxes DID go to support large amounts of social building. Competition from warm comfortable public sector homes drives down private rents. Thatcher’s decision to abandon public housing is why Nick’s rent in the private sector is so expensive.
That headline would work if the last two words were meant to be the answer, rather than the article source. That rag has pushed and enabled the toxic ideology that eroded the social contract in the first place.
The gulf is going to widen int he next 20 years with the boomers passing on wealth to their kids. It’s going to appear futile for those not in the inheritocracy to be able to bridge the gap with hard work alone. At the same time, there is an increasing class of society that appears to be more useless than anything I remember from my youth, or that I heard about from parents or grandparents. Not only do an increasing number have no employment skills, they frequently have no domestic skills either – they cant cook, they cant clean, they cant repair, they can’t look after their kids. With tech advances further depleting employment opportunities, and concentrating wealth in the hands of the few who are lucky enough to own the right assets – society will develop an obsolete underclass, and nasty things are going to happen.
If it makes you feel better the social contract is broken everywhere.
Capitalism needs to stop.
To imply that it is merely thought of and not just a fact makes it seem like the paper/writer thinks it’s just some sort of perception problem.
I suppose it’s difficult for these folks to understand the sheer magnitude of the betrayal when they’ve had their entire life handed to them from aught.
Social contract- what a fucking joke. They took everything and pulled up the drawbridge behind them.
Of course it is, my parents and grandparents generation (not mine but other people’s)
Had a wage that bought a house and raised a family I can barely support myself working 60 hours a week
What makes it all hopeless is to see the lack of accountability by almost everyone in power, at any level. The corruption is rampant and nobody is being punished for the most horrifics things. Just the idiots lke you and me are meat for jail or fines. Everyone else, in both extremes (poor and rich) and untouchable.
Because it is?
The police have been neutered so as not to be a deterrent any more.
The NHS has been dripped dry leaving people waiting for basic GP appointments and months sometimes years for more complicated treatment.
Houses prices continue to rise despite them having been unaffordable for years.
Towns and cities up and down the country are filled to the brim with empty storefronts as people cant afford to shop in their local businesses.
Income and wealth inequality continue to rise to the point of absurdity.
And this is just right now.
In the near future we are looking at :
Massive drops in government taxable income as the baby boomers and gen x retire , going from giving into the pot through working tax, to drawing down in pension and the general healthcare costs of getting old.
The ongoing effects of climate change will continue to make life more difficult.
And we are heading toward a drop in birth rates because millenials zoomers and gen alpha feel as though the current situation is not conducive to raising a child.
And the very real possibility of the pension system either collapsing, the age being raised to a point of uselessness or the actual payouts being pathetic.
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