The Great Living Squeeze
A sense of malaise among younger generations is backed up by hard economic statistics speaking of a drastic decline in living standards. How can we overhaul the individualist non-society responsible for this climate of despair?
Volunteers sort food into food parcels at the Rumney Forum community charity, Cardiff, November 2022. Fifty-six percent of workers earning a wage below the minimum cost of living reported using food banks in 2022. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)
If you’ve spent any time at all on TikTok recently, you’ll have seen plenty of videos from young people despairing about life in the UK. Videos with captions like ‘Why is everything so expensive?’, ‘Why is rent so high?’, ‘Why can’t I get a doctor’s appointment?’ are going viral every day. With no clear answers, […]
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