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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Ben, really, you should know by now that all today's youth are universally feckless wasters, whereas when posters in this thread were young everyone was working a 60 hour week for really low pay, living off rain water and mud and sleeping in sheds.
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Well we were.
Not really, but as I recall there was nothing other than dole and you only got that if you'd already worked for a considerable period of time. Majority of my peers lived with their parents and saved up for their first step on the property ladder, often a run down terrace that needed everything done and mostly they did it themselves or from/with mates. Then teenage pregnancy was considered taboo rather than a passport into state paid for housing and benefits.
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That the incomes of under-25s have dropped precipitously and will continue to is all their fault, nothing at all to do with outside factors.
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If employers could have got UK labour in the past then they would not have had to resort to so much migrant labour. That has made a magnet for further influxes resulting in a race to the bottom. The seeds were sown.
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