Great comment is free article today. Now the party’s over, will the young really pick up the tab?: There is little fairness in expecting future workers to support the gilded pensions of a generation who had it so much easier.
Some of the comments are pretty neat, like this one (edited for clarity):
Thanks for the article (I’m young and poor so always appreciate the oldies recognsing we exist)
Revolution is required.
- social housing for the masses (token rents, say, 20 quid a week, if that)
- free(ish) fruit and veg produced by a nation of voluntary allotment workers
- heavy taxes on luxury crap (you paid 500 quid for a handbag? - cough up another 400 quid in tax, you mug)
- free training for anyone, any age
- compulsory retirement at age 60 (we need your jobs, guv’)
- squatters rights on houses long abandoned by councils
- lifetime rent free house on 23rd birthday for anyone who has no children and no criminal convictions
- public transport revolution funded by business class air travellers and anyone caught abroad doing sex crimes
- 2 children or less = free lottery tickets every week
- cocaine legalised and taxed but you still get fined if caught with it - kind of a tax lottery “it could be you”
- understanding that there are not jobs for everyone and never will be
- ww2 spirit to tackle climate change (ministry of propaganda etc)
- illegal for anyone with an income of more than 40 grand a year to be an estate agent
- Tescos to be turned into a non-profit organisation
(don’t expect any of this to happen - more likely you’ll be shot in your home by the next generation as they go on the rampage in a Greek stylee)
