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

Rinoa

Another Graham post whinging about the plight of the young.

School until 18, Uni for 3 years, take a gap year or 2, start work at 23. Poor souls.

GhIFA

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Mr. King needs to pick a historical analogy with which he is more familiar.

My historical knowledge is a little rusty, but didn't the revolt fall apart when the peasant's lost their discipline, went on a looting and murdering spree in the City of London, saw their leader killed and basically ended up back in a position that was just as bad as before - so basically achieved very little?

vivatifosi

Rinoa wrote: »

Another Graham post whinging about the plight of the young.

School until 18, Uni for 3 years, take a gap year or 2, start work at 23. Poor souls.

Another baby-boomer bashing article that neglects to remember two key facts:

1: Baby boomers were born post-war to early 60s so most haven't retired yet.

2: Suggesting that any group of people born between two arbitrary dates is a homogeneous group is ridiculous.

Nothing new there then.

yorkshirekev

Lets be honest here. Even if there is resentment, so many people are invested in the system (inheritance etc) that self-interest and in other cases indifference will win the day.

The internet does allow ideas to be shared more freely. Unfortunately that can mean people importing them wholesale and setting their entire beliefs around them (Quick lets call everyone who disagrees with us sheeple)

This is all a load of air IMHO and Stephen King the author would probably have a far more interesting (and inventive) take on the situation.

Graham_Devon

Rinoa wrote: »

Another Graham post whinging about the plight of the young.

School until 18, Uni for 3 years, take a gap year or 2, start work at 23. Poor souls.

Just to make a slight point here. I've not whinged about anything. Nothing at all. You are back to making stuff up again.

Infact the only comment I have passed on the article was in response to clapton, stating you couldn't make the hypocrisy of a banker lording it over baby boomers suggesting they will have to do something about the wealth gap.

I normally like articles like this, but from a banker? Give me strength....

N1AK

Rinoa wrote: »

Another Graham post whinging about the plight of the young.

School until 18, Uni for 3 years, take a gap year or 2, start work at 23. Poor souls.

Yeah because that's what every youngster gets these days you've either had an unusually privileged childhood or have an uninformed perspective, not that either of those would stop you thinking you know it all

It's hard to know how things will develop over the next few years. If we see a strong recovery with wage inflation returning etc then this is unlikely to happen; however if it doesn't then I believe there is a very real chance something like this could happen.

There's a general principle I tend to work to: It is often easier to negotiate and give a little before your 'opposition' gets fed up of waiting and takes a lot.

neverdespairgirl

GhIFA wrote: »

My historical knowledge is a little rusty, but didn't the revolt fall apart when the peasant's lost their discipline, went on a looting and murdering spree in the City of London, saw their leader killed and basically ended up back in a position that was just as bad as before - so basically achieved very little?

Actually, I think it fell apart when they trusted that the boy King Richard II would keep his word, as opposed to saying whatever they wanted to hear to their faces, then recinding it all as soon as they'd gone home.

It certainly scared the living daylights out of the powers-that-where - no poll taxes after that for 600-odd years.

GhIFA

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Actually, I think it fell apart when they trusted that the boy King Richard II would keep his word, as opposed to saying whatever they wanted to hear to their faces, then recinding it all as soon as they'd gone home.

It certainly scared the living daylights out of the powers-that-where - no poll taxes after that for 600-odd years.

Like I said, I'm a little rusty!

quantic

I'm in my 20's, on one hand I feel the pain of my generation, I really do.

I find the fact that many older generations have gained so much by doing so little shocking - my parents included. I also find it appalling how so many people got rich off the right to buy scheme, many of which who did not deserve or work for a penny of it.

That said, with many of the people I know who can't buy houses - they earn good money, better than me, it's purely because they are not prepared to maintain and sustain a level of savings and cant seem to do without buying crap. Again a generalisation but I can only speak from my personal experience.

It doesn't exactly inspire the youth of today to save when they are probably going to be buying an ex council house because its all they can get a mortgage on - off someone who didn't earn it and paid half for it.

So when I think about it - can I really blame them for just wanting to keep their cushy lifestyle instead...

IveSeenTheLight

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!

I find it laughable to see the words uprising and revolt in this post.

Having operations, mobilising people and having worked in Egypt in the last couple of years (also was planned to go myself this month), the idea of an uprising or revolt in the UK does not appear to have the same context.

It may appear that those discussing uprising or revolts in the UK, clearly do not have any knowledge or understanding of how privileged they are when compared to many issues around the world.

Many people throughout the world would happily accept the position of the so called underprivileged / younger generations expectations