Defeated and trapped. Young look on in despair at The Kingdom of the Boomers

ruggedtoast

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/19/generation-y-deserves-better-so-do-parents

Something has been going wrong for ages, while I was cajoling my kids to jump through educational hoops that were already bent out of shape. I watched them revise information that they had not yet absorbed so their exhausted teachers could hit arbitrary targets. I encouraged them to go to college thinking it would lead to semi-decent jobs, not endless three-month contracts and two-hour shifts in pubs where most of the charming people behind the bar have MAs. I watched them being ripped off by letting agencies who did not maintain basic standards, never mind heat and sound insulation.

I know that now they are in their twenties, they can't afford to have the heating on a lot, never mind think about having kids themselves in such an insecure climate...

Generation Y are not just people who want to get into high-paid professions, it is also the generation who got their limbs blown off in Helmand. It is a generation of carers in waiting. It is the generation of Occupy and hip young Tories. Yet the life chances of anyone born after 1980 will have been determined largely by who they were born to. Contacts and internships and sailing into careers only happens to those already at the top. This is a problem for all of us.

A young person contemplates the job market

Trapped and locked out, this is a generation cut so far adrift there will be anarchy if something is not done urgently to restore a semblance of equality.

Percy1983

I do think some of the points are pushing it a bit too far but the longer things are allowed to continue to worse it coould get.

PS I quite enjoy second sight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sight_(video_game)

mayonnaise

Percy1983 wrote: »

I do think some of the points are pushing it a bit too far but the longer things are allowed to continue to worse it coould get.

PS I quite enjoy second sight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sight_(video_game)

So ruggedtoast's post is highly misleading, stating this was a photo of a young person contemplating the job market, while it's actually John Vattic suffering memory loss and contemplating his mission? Thanks for pointing that out, Percy.

Rinoa

ruggedtoast wrote: »

A young person contemplates the job market

No Rugged, he just dropped his iPhone and it fell down a grate.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

Hang on, I remember reading Generation X which was all about whiny young people complaining about being over-educated and under-employed.

I was born in 1978. Can someone remind me what I'm supposed to be moaning about?

BillJones

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Trapped and locked out, this is a generation cut so far adrift there will be anarchy if something is not done urgently to restore a semblance of equality.

No, there won't be anarchy, there'll be whining on an internet forum instead of putting in some genuine effort to get ahead.

You don't seem to actually want equality, you want people who put in the effort in years past to give you a handout.

And no, I won't. If you want material success, get out there and earn it. It's not hard, it just looks that way from where you are sitting.

GeorgeHowell

They want equality of outcome, as opposed to equality of rights and opportunities.

Wi88le

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

I was born in 1978. Can someone remind me what I'm supposed to be moaning about?

Alzheimer's?

MrRee_2

Sadly the young today want everything but don't want to do anything to get it ......... everything is instant, sadly success isn't - it takes years of effort and endeavour ... something generally missing from Gen Y.

It's our fault, we told them that they can have what they want - without telling them that you have to work to get it.

That said, they have had the biggest financial help from the boomers than any generation in history .... certainly, I have invested £1,000's in the next generations future. A helping hand us boomers didn't get!

Percy1983

MrRee wrote: »

Sadly the young today want everything but don't want to do anything to get it ......... everything is instant, sadly success isn't - it takes years of effort and endeavour ... something generally missing from Gen Y.

It's our fault, we told them that they can have what they want - without telling them that you have to work to get it.

That said, they have had the biggest financial help from the boomers than any generation in history .... certainly, I have invested £1,000's in the next generations future. A helping hand us boomers didn't get!

Interesting thought:

As its been mentioned HPI has helped people move the housing ladder by increasing there equity and therefore there next deposit.

So rather than working harder and saving/payingdown more equity they could just get the bigger house with no work and no saving for it...

Which generation wanted it now with no work again?

MrRee_2

Can you please replace THERE with THEIR ??