Compare and contrast.

My Boomer Dad:
- Worked in a factory for 40 years (font line worker, non-manager)
- Could afford to pay off a mortgage for a large house and raise a family
- Could retire at the set age on a good pension
- Is having an awesome retirement

Late Gen X Me:
- Software Developer educated to MSc Level
- Gets bare minimum legal pension contributions from my employer, a pathetic 2%
- Employer sells free fruit and social evenings as benefits (total cost of fruit if I ate it: around £0.50)
- Decent-ish base salary, but I know too many useless public sector fucks getting much more with no skillset to speak of, and that makes me depressed
- Mortgage for 1 bedroom flat in a okay-ish area

Oh, and I was the part of the first university intake to get lumped with tutition fees, and graduated at the hight of the 2008 financial crash.

Admittedly, I feel in the long run I will be okay - but I consider myself in the minority of my peers. Millenials are for the most part useless trash, but the normie 9-5 game just doesn't work anymore. So I can't really blame them for not being shit eating corporate stooges. I'm no communist, but money is clearly being drained in the hands of an elite few. In addition, most people of average intelligence just don't have what it takes to work in a modern, high-tech job.

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I don't know if UK is any different from the rest - I don't have the experience. I voted Brexit - but mainly because I was sick of UK politicans blaming the EU for all their screw ups. I would say the primary factors underlying this shit state of affairs is globalization and corporate feminism:

- The big one: moving women into the workplace on mass. Good boost for the economy, but everything gets more expensive as couples have more money. Now you need two salaries to buy a house and not one.
- Working women creates less native children - so mass immigration becomes the next gig. Obviously causing huge social problems, overcrowding, and driving down salaries due to many of them being willing to work for less and live in cramped conditions.
- Globalization: out of sight out of mind slave workers replacing paid workers. I didn't mention that my Dad and all his colleagues all got laid off in the end. Close enough to retirement to not really matter, but hundreds who had worked there their entire lives thrown to the wolves and the factory moved to Asia. Profits went up. Quality went down. The government cheered this on in thousands of cases. My Dad told me the stress of the situation caused many of his friends/colleages to have heart attacks and strokes. Many of them never got to see any retirement.
- The university scam: really just an amplifier for all three of the above. We keep hundreds of thousands of young and productive workers out of the economy (more immigration) for no reason. Women do better in education, get careers and have no children (more immigration). The end game of all this? Oh, you are 27 now with a PHD? Come be an entry level assistant junior data analyst on 22k - but, hey, at least your boomer lecturers are going to retire on a final salary pension next year.

I doubt somone could deliberately fuck a nation if they tried - and I didn't even cover any of the cultural marxist bullshit and crashing teaching standards. The question is how bad it has to get before enough people have nothing to lose.

Edit: I don't want to sound too hard on immigrants. If anyone comes to work, to fit in, and obey the law, I can't blame them for doing it. Unfortunately England is an overcrowded, concrete hell hole - and it is getting worse each year.