What exactly is wrong with people today?

[FelicityFlops]

Constant posts about "over-entitled" children - why do parents not set boundaries.
Everyone seems to have "anxiety" - wanting to do your best in a job of at an interview is normal.
Climate change, yes, this is important, so look at how much the internet has an influence.
Cost of food, stop buying at supermarkets. Get to know your local providers. Definitely stop buying ready meals and cook your own.
Nobody owes you a living and the current government definitely will not bail you out. Stop relying on the 1997 to 2010 run of idiot "socialists" that knackered the country, sold off our gold reserves and created this total mess!
Get educated, if you are intelligent. Learn a skill or trade. Allegedly there are loads of opportunities.
A house is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it. Where, in any economic theory, does it state that property values must rise?
Or just be a grumpy old lady, like me?

Put the cork back in the bottle,and get some sleep.

You are so right@FelicityFlops

Keep voting tory, look how well its going..

Care to explain "everyone has a diagnosis now" because Ethan seems on the face of it to be ableist.

Thanks for those deep insights from the Daily Express. Did you got to Oxford OP?

Get educated, if you are intelligent.

Obviously a wasted effort in your case then, dear? I'd correct all your ridiculous "idiot" comments, but I don't have a month to waste on the intellectually inferior.

There there now.

Get educated, if you are intelligent. Learn a skill or trade. Allegedly there are loads of opportunities

We need people at all levels of skills for society to function. If everyone upskilled, then who would sweep the streets? Who would wipe your nan's ass in a care home and convince her to get back to bed? You would clean the desk in your office? Who would pick the potatoes that get sent to your local farm shop?

The people who work at the bottom should have enough money to live and enjoy life too.

I agree OP, well I think I do (post was a bit unclear)
Everyone has a diagnosis now
No one wants to start at the bottom and work hard, everyone expects more than they put in

Abelist rubbish - that first part - do you know how long it takes for anyone to get a diagnosis of need - or do you just think it's all made up (ASHD, ASD, BPD, PTSD etc)?

I don't understand the second bit - do you mean everyone just wants to be a surgeon without training or do you mean the people who go to Eton - Oxbridge - then straight into the Tory government?

Mum, that you? ..been on the G&Ts all day again is it....

A boomer in that context is someone deluded enough to believe they have what they do purely down to their own superior efforts, and that the young are simply lazy/ doing something wrong/ wasting money on take out coffee etc if they aren’t as financially secure as the older generation.
It just saves the effort of trying to explain you can’t buy a house for 25p anymore and all the rest when you know their counter argument will be ‘stop buying avocados’ and some bullshit about paying their stamp.

Should be noted they are the same age group, but not to be confused with the many decent people of the baby boom generation that understand they had opportunities that aren’t available to the young and sympathise with them.

Why don’t you have your own pension? That was clearly an idiotic decision for one so wise

@FelicityFlops
I believe we had to come off the gold standard to provide more liquidity to the markets. (Although I need more research on that)

This is like if you trained an AI bot in conservative ideology and then let it loose on mumsnet

I'm sure there must be other forums on the internet better suited to one with your muddled and prejudiced views. You will find an echo chamber somewhere else - try the Mail Online.

Alas, it sounds as though FelicityFlops is not intelligent. Maybe that’s why she grumpily spouts political propaganda rather than getting educated and engaging in critical thinking.

Much easier to educate oneself when you got grants and shit

@FelicityFlops
the people that puzzle me are ones that way they cannot afford x, but then get takeaways most nights

Holy shit OP! You have just solved the whole country, no, the whole world’s problems.

Who knew it was that simple?

Bloody hell. I wish I’d have thought of that, then I could have started this thread. Damn.

👏🏻 Yes

nah the ones that puzzle me are the ones who claim they can't afford x but send their kids to private school

Anyone got a spare Daily Mail Bingo card? Failing that a benefit bashing one - I think I am almost about to win - just need 'big screen TV', 'Sky' and 'kids they can't afford'

Ooh, and 'latest iPhone'

You were doing alright until the last one. No one says house prices have to rise!

can't forget that one! It's not like all UC claims are online now so you need the internet and a phone to claim

I agree, people wanting more than they put in is costing the nhs, social care and welfare an unaffordable and unsustainable amount. But on the other hand chucking the elderly in a workhouse and limiting their use of the nhs to accidental external injuries seems a touch barbaric.