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.
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.
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.
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.