"So it's not a generational thing, it's a nobber thing."
Agree with this.
My mother - thinks her generation generally are clueless about what subsequent generations are dealing with, and are pulling the ladder up behind them re mortgages, free higher ed, employee rights, women's rights (actually here she thinks we're going in bloody reverse!)
This is from a woman who's had a bloody tough life.
My father - thinks any generation younger than his are lazy, 'dole bludging', irresponsible, expect something for nothing, that benefits are easy to get, that there's plenty of full time well paid jobs and cheap housing for anyone who 'just bothers to work hard enough' and he retired before 50!
This from a man who got his first job thanks to his father, then joined the army and so had 20+ years in a good job with good pay and conditions from which he couldn't even be made redundant let alone sacked without a damn good reason and lots of red tape, has never in his adult life gone without. In 2 years he'll have been retired longer than he was in the army. He gets an excellent pension more than most get full time pay.
Their mortgage is long paid off, last 2 cars bought cash.
Theemojiformerly - I'd say you're more Gen X like me.
"Or it's a concerted effort to have people fight each other rather than look at who is actually to blame. Divide and conquer. Google it."
Agree this is also true - doesn't make it any easier to listen to him prattle on!
And we need the boomers that DON'T get it to start getting it and join those of us that know the reality in fighting back against high housing costs, poor wages, high education costs post-18, erosion of employee rights etc