Young people feel robbed of a better life but they don't know what to do about it

When my Nana went to university she used to take it in turns with other students to stand on the roof of their halls of residence during air raids with some buckets of sand in order to put out German firebombs... These days people moan merely because they might have to make future contributions in the form of loan repayments to the cost of their study - or at least some of it as the loan has a threshold before which you don't need to pay and an expiry date.

While our parents might have had some boom years to take advantage of we're likely better off than most of the other generations before them... young people today like to moan a lot - we weren't even a proper democracy three generations ago and middle classes didn't exist... you were either born to the right parents or you were a bit screwed.
 
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Nope, but then I'm not young :(

I understand the feeling and imagine it is an expression of the wider difficulties for developed nations to remain competitive in the face of low labour costs in developing nations. As a result there is much less opportunity for growth and people will struggle to improve their life which their parents may have had a better opprtunity to do.
 
Facebook keeps changing its ******* layout, YouTube has to re-buffer whenever you move the slider, Twitter is full of *****, and I still haven't got my ******* Flubit invite ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Of course I feel ******* robbed ! ! ! !
 
I seem to remember when I was younger you didn't really worry about not being able to get a job. 100% mortgages even %110 mortgages were available, wish I had taken one now.
 
dowie said:
When my Nana went to university she used to take it in turns with other students to stand on the roof of their halls of residence during air raids with some buckets of sand in order to put out German firebombs... These days people moan merely because they might have to make future contributions in the form of loan repayments to the cost of their study - or at least some of it as the loan has a threshold before which you don't need to pay and an expiry date.

While our parents might have had some boom years to take advantage of we're likely better off than most of the other generations before them... young people today like to moan a lot - we weren't even a proper democracy three generations ago and middle classes didn't exist... you were either born to the right parents or you were a bit screwed.
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To be attending university back then, your Nana must have been "born to the right parents", so let's not feel too bad for her.

Opportunity for the working classes is nowhere near what it was for the baby boomer generation - they did very well out of a changing UK. But they've pulled up the ladder with their high house prices and huge pension bill, shutting out many of the current young from making such strides of social mobility.
 
when i was a lad......

getting older :D

when your young no one knows what they want to do.

do youngers (still hip bruv) :p want to graft ? nope !


im lucky if my lad for eg wants to nip to shop never mind graft like i used to at his age.

i do think we as a nation have it too easy. im not saying everyone should be down pit or in army but there is what you want if you put the effort in to get it still.

problem is many just want it without the effort which wont happen.you get out what you put in.

so i think its more the lack of get up and go get it attitude than the idleness.

media doesn't help though.
 
cheesyboy said:
To be attending university back then, your Nana must have been "born to the right parents", so let's not feel too bad for her.
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Not at all... her dad was a miner - she was bought up during the strikes and was one of only a handful of women at her university.
 
Downward spiral seems about right, whats new, it was **** for my parents, it's was **** for me and it'll be **** for my children.

The only people it's getting better for is those born into privileged families and those lucky enough to rise out of the ****. I reiterate, what's new.
 
Aww bechod

Ooh it must be tragic for them being born into an age where they are significantly better off than their parents and grandparents.

The tragedy.

*cries*
 
The trouble is all the businesses and multinationals have shipped their labour to east for the low wages, places like Communist China are booming as a result while the west is in decline.

Another 50-100yrs and most of the west will be basketcase economies like Greece, which is why the UK government is pushing workfare schemes... most people will be working for their benefits and not minimum wage. The government will continue to lie about unemployment figures until reality hits that hardly anyone has a paid job anymore.
 
Seriously though, I don't see me ever being able to afford to buy a house because I don't have £50,000+ lying around doing nothing. Yet I can easily afford a high monthly rent. I was unfortunate enough to start wanting to get on the property ladder a year or so after everything went wrong, whereas my friend was older and bought just before. Now he has a lovely, affordable house with a small mortgage and I'll be paying dead money for the rest of my life with less security and little sense of permanency. So, in that respect, I do feel screwed over.
 
cheesyboy said:
Opportunity for the working classes is nowhere near what it was for the baby boomer generation - they did very well out of a changing UK. But they've pulled up the ladder with their high house prices and huge pension bill, shutting out many of the current young from making such strides of social mobility.
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Rubbish!

My father is an HGV mechanic and my mum is an office administrator. All of the children of my mum's side of the family went to University/military and will probably earn more than their parents. I earn x2 what my parents earn for example. My brother will be coming out of the RAF soon and will get a decent engineering job at BAE or the likes.

My dad's side of the family are largely on the dole, most of their kids have decided to have children young and never put much work in at school.

It's all about your upbringing. If your parents taught you to work hard, you do it and will do well. If your parents didn't bother then statistically, you probably won't either.

Money doesn't seem to make much of a difference except for helping with saving for a house, most of my ex's friends (who went to private schools in the South East) took a few years after graduation before they secured a job while I had one entering 3rd year of Uni.

I do agree with you on house prices though. It's pretty difficult to save for a deposit but then again most people seem to prefer spending the money on travelling or buying material things while young and then saving for a house. Personal preferences differ to the last generation.

Our pension benefits won't be anywhere near our grandparent's either.
 
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