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All very well put. You capture the difference between "My shire, my job, my retirement" millennial politics competing with "Violently seize history by the throat; the new era will be born" zoomers. However, and I wouldn't consider this criticism, you didn't mention how annoying the "Yookay" meme is.

The Yookay is the same "Lord Miles - England is weak" or "Britian is a caliphate" rhetoric you see from the States, but shields itself with irony. I'm winking, yeah? I get the joke? With small changes, it would be identical to a dirt bag leftist account. At the very core, it forces the participant to mimick the MLE accent. It's like a child hearing an annoying noise and than constantly trying to make the same noise to convey how irritating it is.

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I do think the 2012 student loan changes are an underestimated dividing line that maps millenial/zoomer fairly well (an eighteen year-old in 2012 being born 1994, zoomers starting from 1996). In university I knew a medical student who due to his seven-year course saw a couple of years both sides of the change and said the difference in attitudes was sharp in pre- & post-2012 cohorts, with the latter being more studious given their tripling fees.

The tying of interest rates to income is barely understood even by those post-2012. Even those on a fairly menial income are likely to have substantially paid off a pre-2012 loan, whereas those coming afterwards will be bearing that 9% marginal tax throughout their prime years of earning with the resulting effect on mortgage affordability and family size.

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