The Boomers Have Had It Too Good?

This is Ragebait to me. I have no intention of reading any of it.

Oh again!

Well, the idea was to consider the both sides rather than have a knee jerk reaction.
And no-one was forcing you to even look at this thread.

(Btw, it's a BBC radio programme, not something to read)

I haven’t listened to it ( will do later) but wonder if young people now would live the way that we did when our children were young. Hand me down clothes, saving up for things that we needed. Raging inflation at one time that we had to negotiate. No nursery provision if we wanted to return to work. Constant worry of unemployment during the Thatcher years etc.

Spot on MayBee70.

It wasn't all milk and honey, although I made sure my children were fed as well as I could manage and had their daily milk.

I think many now would be quite shocked at how we had to penny pinch. That is not to ignore those who are struggling now.

Plus we are not dead[yet].

Who knows what is to come.

Plus if we have been blest, so be it.

Yep, we have had it too good we have too much and we want more.

Macmillan coined the phrase, most of us " have never had it so good".

Pensioners have never been better off, or maybe someone can remember better times.

We might be better off now but it was certainly a struggle when bringing up a family.

Another way of setting groups of people against each other.

Do some people want to go back to the days when some pensioners lived on cornflakes and tea?

Or perhaps making sure that our younger generations will not even have a pension? Just take it away now?

Own brands of course.

Or dog meat?

JenniRen

We might be better off now but it was certainly a struggle when bringing up a family.

It's always a struggle with a young family, our GC are having a much harder time with jobs and housing than ever our generation did.

Thank you for this, NittWitt.

Perhaps a better thread title would have been Across the Red Line or Conflict Resolution.

The essence of the series is not really the topic itself but how people listen to one another, what they hear, what they understand of the other person's point of view, whether there is any common ground and whether someone's position shifts as a result of the debate.

I think that in less than 30 minutes, with time lost to explaining the rules and the process, there wasn't going to be time for either position to shift.

I did find Jackie Weaver's arguments in defence of boomers rather good especially with regard to old age care and the fact that London boomers did have to move away from their home city to able to afford somewhere to live. Henry Hill seemed to think this was something new.

In fact, Henry Hill was technically inaccurate on a number of issues. I think he needs to watch BBC' drama series This Life to understand that professional house shares existed before his generation and long before that one too.