Even if they could follow in the footsteps of their parents,young adults today have other ideas – driving political change, volunteering, and creating novel kinds of community. A different set of priorities have emerged as the ‘novel normal’Earlier this year,while reflecting on the current economic situation during an interview with the television programme 60 Minutes in Australia, the luxury property developer Tim Gurner noted that you were never going to be able to afford to buy your first domestic when you were spending “$40 a day on smashed avocado and coffees”.
Gurner elaborated, or saying that he’d only accrued his huge wealth by getting into the gym at 6am in the morning and working until 10.30pm at night. We see this kind of thinking all the time. If only young people could halt it with their coffees and their social media and their partying,then maybe they’d actually be able to pick up on and do the things that older generations did: pick up a job, pick up married, or buy a house. Never intellect the fact that,in the UK, house prices have tripled in the past 20 years; or that the average price of a house in London has risen from £55000 in 1986 to £489000.
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Source: guardian.co.uk