The generation poorer than their parents

Ark_Welder

Perhaps those that have their rose-tinted view of the past will see...

...scarlet fever, diphtheria, smallpox, etc.


A higher standard of living is not confined to consumerism.

abaxas

MFW_10YRS wrote: »

Maybe we were better off before all this consumerism. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

It's not about money, it's about basic quality of life. We have issue now where the basics are more expensive but the non-essential are much cheaper.

adam611

erdd2 wrote: »

Are you seeking the monopoly on mentioning people living in poverty? ;)

You are comparing....a developing country to a developed country...free medical care and schooling that is not free to all in both Africa and UK....the "freebies" whether in UK or Africa are free to the recipient at a cost to the benefactor (willing or not)....many of us have volunteered and donated to less fortunates in both UK and Africa...there is wealth in both UK and Africa....there are those in both that have the means but will not impart with same to help their fellow man....the UK is sinking giving aid and burdening the taxpayer without their permission.....

Yes actually I am, poverty is poverty when you have seen the conditions most people out there live in its very hard to hear people talking about poverty here. I understand that its all relative but my reality includes seeing how people in true poverty live and once you've seen it it you never forget how lucky we in the UK are.

abaxas wrote: »

It's called progress. A modern society should move forward not back. Ie be positive for the future and make it better.

That is a nice in theory but this is the real world unfortunately, technology has moved us forward but some would say society has gone backwards.

MFW_10YRS wrote: »

Maybe we were better off before all this consumerism. Money doesn't necessarily make you happy.

Never has a truer word been spoken,


My nanna has half a lung missing from TB which almost killed her I have never had to worry about things like that. I think given the choice I will stick with the higher cost of living rather than the good old days.

Oldernotwiser

abaxas wrote: »

It's called progress. A modern society should move forward not back. Ie be positive for the future and make it better.

Should it always move forward and for everybody? Where would it end, with everybody living in mansions and earning a million a week?

Life isn't like that; it ebbs and flows.

abaxas

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Should it always move forward and for everybody? Where would it end, with everybody living in mansions and earning a million a week?

Life isn't like that; it ebbs and flows.

Of course it should move forward for everybody. How else can a country become richer.

Ronaldo_Mconaldo

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Should it always move forward and for everybody? Where would it end, with everybody living in mansions and earning a million a week?

Life isn't like that; it ebbs and flows.

No, it'll stop when Abaxas gets their mansion, then it can stop. After all comrades, we are all in this together, well until I get what I want and then the rest of you can go to hell.

abaxas

Ronaldo_Mconaldo wrote: »

No, it'll stop when Abaxas gets their mansion, then it can stop. After all comrades, we are all in this together, well until I get what I want and then the rest of you can go to hell.

Obviously you have no want for your mental health to improve :P

adam611

abaxas wrote: »

Of course it should move forward for everybody. How else can a country become richer.

Some people will always be richer than others FACT, always has been this way always will be this way. Life is not equal and it is not fair

You just have to do the best with what you've got, and enjoy your own life rather than judging it against other peoples.

tesuhoha

There is a lot of blame here where there shouldn't be. Its not the pensioners' fault that the country is in a bad way. The blame should be lie the politicians and bankers who brought this country to this poor state of affairs - such as that person who retired recently with an 180bn fortune. He made that money out of Black Wednesday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2773265/Billionaire-who-broke-the-Bank-of-England.html.

The man is 80. Why does he need 180bn?

There are others like him who have bled money out of this country. Blame them, blame Thatcher for de-regulating the banks in the 80s so they could do as they pleased. What about when they privatised the water, and electric industries etc. Those companies were supposedly owned by the people but did you get anything out of it when they sold them off? We certainly didn't but there were people that made millions out of privatisation.

The situation now is that the country has no industry, the bankers and the wealthy are leeching off the backs of the poor trying to squeeze the last penny out of them. So its those that run the country that have made a mess of things and instead of blaming them, people blame the pensioners who have worked for their pensions and houses, who have quite likely fought in the last war and in a lot of cases will lose their homes to pay for care. If not they will leave them to their children who are the people we are talking about. They are just as much victims of all the wrongdoing as everyone else with inadequate pensions, high fuel and food prices etc.

It seems like older people are always made the scapegoat when we have a bunch of incompetents running the country and its just gone from disaster to disaster. The media tell lies and people believe them.

Graham_Devon

StevieJ wrote: »

I would have thought that those people would be more interested in turnover, so would prefer a lower price and a quick sale.

Watch any TV property !!!!!! including valuations, the seller will always choose to go with the estate agents who values the house at the highest level. Valuing the lowest for quick turnover will do them no good as they won't get the business to turn over in the first place.

Anyway, this thread has about 10 posts which are decent. The rest are just drivel.

See were back to the mobile contracts. So all those before the 30 year olds today NEVER took out contracts on say TV's, or video recorders? They must have, as shops were in every highstreet offering these services.

People are quick to forget what they spent their money on. It really is quite stupid to try and make the younger generations believe that anyone born before 1980, didn't have any technology whatsoever, never went out, never took our any contract and never went on a holiday.

They DID have technology, because in the next post about house prices being lower in yesteryear, the same people will tell you just how much a video recorder cost then. Just how much a walkman cost, which were all the rage. Just how long they spent saving for their Atari and how their washing machine which according to their theory, they shouldn't have bought if they wanted a house, took a whole months wages...yet you still bought them....but by god, woe betide people today buying technology of today.

People forget so easily. Just because people didn't have iphones 30 years ago, it doesn't mean there wasn't something similar that was all the rage that people spent their money on in their twenties.