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by branchless
4042 days ago
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> vast income transfer from poorer young people to well off old Hooray someone who gets it. How on earth did you escape the UK hive-mind? Do you like how they put all the UK pension costs under the main "welfare" heading then demand benefit cuts (excluding pensions) because the welfare bill is too high? Do you know anyone else in the UK who knows or cares about any of this? |
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I think essentially every young person in the UK realises this and cares deeply.
I have a bunch of middle class friends. Many of their parents started out, got a decent job, bought a house. House is now worth 500K+.
For us to ever obtain that (without inheritance; i.e. in the same way they did) we would have to earn over £100K, or have dual income of 70K, ish. That's 5% if not 1% territory; it's essentially limited to business owners/senior mgmt and bankers.
So everyone rents. Who are they renting from? Well, not young people.
Of course, all of this capital will flow down the generations eventually, but only to a select lucky few. It's as if we had a golden age; a few decades of mobility for people to work hard within; and now family wealth is basically crystallised.