It’s routed in misogyny btw. Men are allowed to love super heroes, make their own football teams, fan girl over sports stars at any age but women can never heal their inner child without being demonised.
"Why don't you just save for a mortgage, it's cheaper than renting"
Okay, here we go... As a single person in The UK this is the situation for a lot of people.
Most people in The UK are on minimum wage and full time monthly wage after deductions is around £1700
Rent: £800 (this is the very low end), Council Tax: £190, Electric: £80, Water: £40. £590 left. Just to live somewhere.
Food: £250 a month and that's been generous. £340 left.
Car insurance and fuel for getting to work: probably another £200. £140 left
Phone bill: £50. £90 left
WiFi to make life bearable £40. £50 left.
This is best case scenario, you have no unexpected bills or things to pay out. So say you have £50 left to save every month, that's £600 a year. You probably still wouldn't have a deposit in 20 years.
Apparently we've got it easy though, says a generation who could buy a house and raise a family from a one income minimum wage job.
We live in a country where minimum wage doesn't even meet minimum living requirements. We're done.
You need to understand that this is by design. Working-class people used to be shockingly literate. The rich and powerful have built a society where most folks are addicted to screens because mass literacy threatens them. They want you to be stupid. We resist them by reading.
Gen Z is right obviously. Taking work seriously has very few upsides anymore. You're not going to be able to afford a house, get married, or have children, which means the incentives that formed the basis of western civilization are all gone now.
Jonathan Ross has just thrown the most assured Traitors win ever - when he goes and it’s revealed he’s a traitor, Joe will remember he said Alan and Cat in the car #CelebrityTraitors
"ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and 'consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.' Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study."