I'm getting increasingly angry and depressed for our children's future.

[WhenWillTheShitEnd]

To think that my hard working son, who gets minimum wage is now strugglying to make end meet because of an egotistical, corrupt, millionaire/billionaire pervert is giving me sleepless nights. To think that the whole world is being held to ransom by men like Trump and Putin is making me so depressed and angry that its affecting my every day life. I feel so utterly helpless. We are all recycling, being told not to use our woodburners etc, while the like of the US and Russia are pumping colossal amount of CO2 into the atmosphere with their bombs. I'm so FUCKING ANGRY.

just me then, I guess Scott Mills is more of a concern FFS

No definitely not just you. Me too. I have 3 sons, the eldest has just become a dad, what a world my granddaughter has been born into 😢
my youngest ds is only 17 and looking at Uni courses and I’m thinking what future will young people like him have? All because power hungry selfish violent men like Putin, Netanyahu, and Trump think they own the world and can destroy it just because they feel like it 😡😡

I'm so with you OP! I don't actually know how ordinary people will survive. The prices of Diesel and food and everything (!) are just astronomical and going up every day whilst billionaires just get richer and laugh at us. The world has become a billionaires' playground.

I totally agree with you. I started typing a long reply but I actually cannot put into words how angry I am that our generation is mortgaging our children’s future for all of you have stated above but I also feel to keep ourselves and older people in the manner we want to be accustomed to whilst moaning on about minimum wage being given a laughable increase, wanting help with fuel blah blah blah when we need to cut per cloth accordingly to give our children a better future. We’ve all had many years of a very good economy, then saddled our own kids with brexit, crap governments of all persuasions etc. I’m putting it badly but I think we’ve all done wrong by them at all levels.

I'm not angry but I do feel sad for families and people where they earn minimum or just above minimum wage. The price of houses, the price of cars, and the prices to run said houses and cars are almost too much for a couple who both work full-time but in just above minimum wage jobs.

I don’t understand it. We could be living in paradise. We are so clever and we have this incredible planet. Yet due to the male drive a minority have to “win” by having more than they could ever need and impoverish the majority of us in the process. It’s actually insane.

This. Imagine if we worked together and respected each other. It could be utopia.

I believe that a combination of the worldwide political situation and climate change is a major reason why so many young adults are deciding not to have children. I have heard of several instances in my own circle of family and friends.

My daughter (only child) has decided not to have children and I can't describe how grateful I am. I can't imagine being happy to bring a child into this shit show.

I agree. For several years now, when I've seen any threads about pregnancy or "line eyes please", I wonder why anyone would want to bring children into today's world. I'm glad my own child rearing days were years ago, but I do worry for my own DC's futures. They're young adults and just trying to get started, but it all feels so hopeless. And here's the government trying to encourage people to have more children in order to support the future population. Madness.

Cool your jets and give people a chance to respond.

My daughter is doing her GCSEs in 2 years and is thinking about what she wants to do 16-18, part of me thinks it doesn't matter because you wont be able to get a job anyway but I don't tell her that.
It is depressing but I try not to think about it too much otherwise it will consume me.

yeah sorry. just so angry

Right!

have apologized....woke up hoping trump had come to his senses....NOPE. ABSOLUTE ARSEHOLE

What makes me insanely angry are Trumps press conferences, the press just take what ever shit he is spouting without shouting back that he lying to them. At least Macron has had the balls to speak up now.

It must be dreadful if you live in one of the areas in the world currently under attack and I don't underestimate that, or the threat of global conflict.

However, as someone who remembers the 1970s, the way we live now is much more materially comfortable than 50 years ago and if you live in the UK currently, you are better off and living a nicer life than just about any other person ever in history, so I don't think we should despair.

It is not "normal" historically to have educational opportunities, a fulfilling career, a range of job opportunities good health with access to even basic healthcare, or to own your own home which isn't overcrowded. This has always been the preserve of a very few, and in the case of healthcare, even the current offerings of the NHS are a vast improvement on healthcare available even to the rich a hundred years or so ago.

I wake up hoping Trump is dead, tbh.

I watched the moon launch last night. All that money available, all that intelligence to tap into. Yet the wars still rage, wealth is hoarded by the few and the little people (in the UK at least) fight amongst themselves and blame each other for the mess.

If I was terminally ill and a crackshot.........

I’m 54 and we decided not to have any partly because of the direction the world was going. That was 25/30 years ago and it’s only got unfathomably worse since. Honestly I’m glad I’m this age and won’t have to live through the coming end game.

And @JuliettaCaeser i completely agree. It’s so extremely STUPID that it’s almost funny how humans have chosen to destroy themselves. That line at the end of Don’t Look Up says it best: “We really did have everything, didn't we?”

I understand your point but people were saying the same things after world wars l and ll

The time after the 60s led to a period of prosperity (and advances in technology and medicine) that made most people's lives comfortable, however that is certainly being challenged now but I still believe our lives and those of our children are much better than a hundred years ago.

This is a lower period but I'm not as pessimistic for young adults as there are job opportunities and our children have access to free education (up to 18) and healthcare. The growth in population has caused house price explosion so that needs to be resolved as it's a factor behind CoL due to rents/mortgage absorbing large proportion of disposable income.

I'm equally angry with Trump for the violence and disruption he is inflicting on the ME but thankful that, in the UK, we are fortunate not to face the fear of the bombing.

Thought about it in the Hail Mary film. Silly film but he’s in space and desperate to get back to the heaven that is earth. It’s so precious as all our kids lives how can these men be so destructive? I literally cannot understand it.

I honestly believe a committee of 12 ordinary women picked at random governing each country the world would be transformed. That is my fantasy.

I feel similar. And in addition to being so angry at the people who are making this happen, I'm really angry at the complacency of others.

People who think it's similar to the times around WWI and II don't seem to understand that climate change, AI, the power given to billionaires and the effects of social media put the world in an entirely different place to anything that has come before.

My friendship group of 18 50 something mothers would have it sorted within a year along with our equivalents in each
country. We wouldn’t be sending other peoples sons to war that’s for sure.