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Young People in The West are Being Royally Shafted
And given their bleak life chances, they must do something about it now.
Who would want to be a twenty-two year old in today’s Britain or in the United States?
These poor folks are saddled with tens of thousands of dollars and pounds in debt, long before they set foot into the treacherous world of the workplace.
And for those lucky enough to find work which is closely matched to their skill set, they must also worry about the extortionate levels of rent in cities like New York and London.
You would be highly fortunate in 2022, if you could find a livable space in Britain’s capital city for less than £2,000 per month and this is no different for their contemporaries across the Atlantic.
In these interesting times, generation Z and millennials cannot begin to contemplate buying a property of their own, when all of their meager wages are being spent on rent and utility bills.
And when you add into the mix that they have been at the receiving end of the global financial crash, austerity, Brexit, pandemic, and inflation, there is no hope that the current crop of 22–40 age group will ever be able to amass any wealth to pass on to the next generation.