if I was a young person being told that the best our economic system can ever offer me is working longer and longer hours to live with more and more roommates and eat worse and worse food, I might start getting this crazy idea that we need a new economic system
This isn’t to diminish or write off those children. It’s to put in place appropriate support to try and prevent that actuality. A 15 year old who has slipped through the cracks of the system faces a much harder time trying to change their outcome than an 8yr old who’s caught.
The UK gets 8 bank holidays a year.
France gets 11. Italy 12. Austria 13. Spain around 14.
You work more days than almost anyone in western Europe, your pay buys less than it did fifteen years ago, and they keep moving the retirement age further away.
Who exactly is this arrangement working for?
As the Earth gets hotter, the seasons get more extreme, & the disasters get closer to your home, there will be an increased focus on convincing you these conditions are the result of the many’s existence, instead of capitalism, which loots the world to line the pockets of a few.
I have never seen a single undergraduate course offered in gender studies or critical race theory. Not one. These are subdisciplines that you *might* study as part of a literature or sociology degree. It's crazy that the right lambast such esoteric fields of academia.
Britain has produced a generation of thirty-year-olds who can't afford to move out, can't afford to have children, can't afford to get ill, and can't afford to stop.
They did everything they were told. School, university, the debt, the graduate scheme, the promotion that came with more responsibility and £200 a month.
The reward is a life where every month is spoken for before it starts, with nothing left over to build anything that might eventually get them out.
A million people didn't independently fail. This is what a decade of flat wages against climbing costs actually looks like.
One has to wonder why @PolitlcsUK are saying these untruths. The facts are these: a 16 or 17 year old working 35 hours at minimum wage gets £280 a week. The most anyone can get from PIP is £194.50 a week. What's more, people with PIP can also work as well, it is not an unemployment benefit. But the facts are clear: a teenager can earn £100 more than the maximum PIP - and the maximum PIP is given to VERY few people.
I fear the UK gov. hates anyone born like 1/2 years either side of the millennium. New GCSEs, new A levels, Covid uni, loss of opportunities such as this. Actually SYM