Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
It's traditional for the older generation to criticise the young and students in general. It's easy to have paid off one's mortgage, to have worked continuously to retirement age and to pick up both an occupational pension and a state pension whilst bemoaning young people who now need a degree to do a job that used to require just O levels, having to compete ferociously for jobs thereafter and after incurring large debts on order to complete those degrees whilst having a far slimmer chance of taking up a mortgage in their early twenties like many of us did. Add on top of that the problems of global warming and dwindling resources, the need to change their skills numerous times in their lifetimes and the constant threat of unemployment, the threat of AI possibly making them superfluous in the work force, constant pressure to promote themselves with personal statements and the like and having to have a longer working life, belonging to a generation who will shoulder the economic financial problems caused by Brexit and Covid-19.
I think we should try and see life through their prism and not ours in these troubled times.
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