No country for young men — UK generation gap widens

pollypenny

ruggedtoast wrote: »

As discussed before, every generation since the Middle Ages had a tougher time overall than the one that succeeded it in terms of technology and medicine.

That doesnt mean that the boomer generation gets to be the first generation that deducts some double taxation from the generation above and below them.

At the moment they have had all the largesse of their parents generations, have benefitted enormously from the house prices, money which goes straight from the pockets of younger FTB's into boomer bank accounts, and they are absorbing retirement benefits faster than the younger generations can find work to pay for them.

Enough is enough. It is time for Boomers to be independent of the teats of others.

'Largesse of their parents' generations'? :cool:

What the heck was that,then? Both my parents had had hard lives during the depression, as did thousands of children in working class families. My father was a miner, mother SAHM until she became a dinner lady, the school cook when youngest sister was 11. They
scrimped to buy their valleys terraced house.

My FIL was a boiler maker, lived in a council house.

There was no 'largesse' to be passed on.

Read Alan Johnson's 'This boy'. While his poverty was extreme, many of our parents' generation were only a step up.

Loughton_Monkey

pollypenny wrote: »

'Largesse of their parents' generations'? :cool:

What the heck was that,then? .......

Toastie doesn't understand these things. I think the chips on both shoulders cause his brain waves to work in the opposite direction from normal.

As usual, in such cases, far better to humour him. You and I can sit back knowing the facts of how we had to live and what we had to do to create a more comfortable life eventually.

Toastie will be our age one day. Only then will he know the equivalent facts about his own generation. The difference is that he will look back and see where he went wrong.

The only thing I wonder about is who he will blame then. Will it be his fellow generation [most of whom got on with it, didn't whinge, and participated in the ever-increasing wealth], or will he blame the [then] younger generation who (he will claim) are milking the oldies dry?