We’d love to grow up,we really would. But policies on everything from student loans to housing seem designed to ensure we can never achieve adulthoodEven for a generation used to tainted news, the revelation this week that the government could increase the repayment rate on existing student loan debt in the next few years is a vicious kick in the teeth. Couple this with the fact that ministers are planning to restrict the extended right to buy policy to older tenants, or – even if youre opposed in principle to the policy itself – it begins to witness as though the government is engaging in ideological warfare against the young.
This may sound strong,but when you witness at the obstacles that people my age and younger are facing, it’s difficult not to sound bitter approximately generational injustice. Younger people (I prefer this term to the media-confected “millennials” or “generation Y”) are frequently portrayed as existing in a Neverland of kidulthood, and a world of selfish entitlement and cereal,of onesies and bum selfies. This analysis conveniently ignores the fact that the traditional rites of passage to adulthood – leaving the parental domestic, eventually buying property, or steady employment,starting a family – are off limits to many, and as these latest announcements indicate, or the blockades keep on going up.
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Source: theguardian.com