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Rich babyboomers behaving like the nobility in the peasants revolt...

Graham_Devon
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edited 12 July 2013 at 9:18AM in Debate House Prices & the Economy
... Could face an uprising by the younger generation if the situation does not change, warns HSBC's chief economist.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10170101/Europes-rich-could-face-uprising-similar-to-Peasants-Revolt.html

And hey, I'm just the messenger starting the riot! ;)
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  • olly300
    olly300 Posts: 14,738 Forumite
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    You aren't starting anything.

    Once the government admits the truth by raising the retirement age watch pensioner benefits disappear.
    I'm not cynical I'm realistic :p

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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Mr. King needs to pick a historical analogy with which he is more familiar.

    That lot is just so full of incorrect historical facts and impressions as to be ridiculous.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Ronaldo_Mconaldo
    Ronaldo_Mconaldo Posts: 5,197 Forumite
    And what's going to happen, eh? The youth of today is going to stop playing Candy Crush on their mobiles and do what? Get their pitch forks out and demand a bit more money? And from whom? The "Baby Boomers"? In other words, their own parents? Not going to happen.

    Stephen King needs to get back to mass producing hooror stories rather than giving the world financial advice.
  • ash28
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    ... Could face an uprising by the younger generation if the situation does not change, warns HSBC's chief economist.



    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10170101/Europes-rich-could-face-uprising-similar-to-Peasants-Revolt.html

    And hey, I'm just the messenger starting the riot! ;)

    The Peasants Revolt is also known as the Poll Tax Riots (for fairly obvious reasons)......another government tried to introduce a poll tax 600 years later, wonder what happened then?
  • Own_My_Own
    Own_My_Own Posts: 6,098 Forumite
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    Ronaldo_Mconaldo wrote: »

    Stephen King needs to get back to mass producing hooror stories rather than giving the world financial advice.

    I do hope hope you were joking . And don't really think Stephen King writes horror stories.

    http://www.economist.com/node/21006933/contributors/Stephen%20King
  • seven-day-weekend
    seven-day-weekend Posts: 36,755 Forumite
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    As a Baby Boomer (born 1950), what 'sense of entitlement' am I supposed to have and what behaviour am I suppose to modify?
    (AKA HRH_MUngo)
    Member #10 of £2 savers club
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  • ash28
    ash28 Posts: 1,789 Forumite
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    Own_My_Own wrote: »
    I do hope hope you were joking . And don't really think Stephen King writes horror stories.

    http://www.economist.com/node/21006933/contributors/Stephen%20King

    But this one does.........

    http://www.stephenking.com/the_library.html

    Loved The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile btw
  • Own_My_Own
    Own_My_Own Posts: 6,098 Forumite
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    ash28 wrote: »
    But this one does.........

    http://www.stephenking.com/the_library.html

    Loved The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile btw

    You don't say :rotfl:
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    handy that then

    nothing to do with rich bankers or the growing gap between the rich and the ordinary person?
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  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    handy that then

    nothing to do with rich bankers or the growing gap between the rich and the ordinary person?

    You couldn't make the hypocrisy up could you!
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