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Originally Posted by Osem
Of course these things wouldn't make up for everything the younger generation have to put up with today but if people thought more about sacrificing some of the things we did, they be much closer to being able to get themselves on the ladder.
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Right. So what does that say about every other age group up to the age of 54, all of whose home ownership rates have also fallen since 1992?
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Originally Posted by Osem
The truth is that things have changed and people today think nothing of having all sorts of memberships, contracts, subscriptions etc. coming out of their salaries for things we'd never have dreamed of then and they'd rather have now/pay later.
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I have actually just realised I posted those same graphs to you in another post along similar-ish lines, where you were supporting government cash being used to subsidise the wealthier, not poorer, retirees. Oddly the costs of that policy appear to outweigh the savings of this one but that's fine, right?
I hope for your sake that you have saved adequately for your own retirement and have enough for private healthcare throughout it, as given your willingness to shaft the 'feckless' young we may all find they collectively grow a pair and return the favour to us at some point.
Beyond that I've nothing more to say to you on the matter. There are of course feckless members of the younger generation but, as the Roman texts show, there always have been, and there is absolutely no reason to think this generation is worse than any other beyond the prejudice that members of
every generation seem to hold towards the previous one. Sorry to say that your personal experience means nothing. The whole point of progress is to try and give our kids a better life than us, not complain about how feckless and hopeless they are and do what we can to drag them down to what was our level 20 years ago.
Maybe if we treated them better rather than telling them their exams are too easy, they're thick, they're lazy, etc, they would do better.
Maybe if we invest more in them we will all do better.