A call to arms, a chance for those born in the 70s and 80s to respond to the chaos. We can not stop the debt bomb but we can remove the Boomer politicians from office. There will be a general election in May. This is our opportunity to kick them out of power. This is a terrible time to be young. Graduates are joining the dole queue as soon as they leave university, while their parents retire on cosy nest eggs. First time buyers are struggling to pay off mortgages on shoe boxes as their folks buy second homes abroad. Young families are struggling to provide the basics as their grandparents embark on another cruise. Every baby in the UK is born owing GBP22,500, a share of the GBP1.4 trillion credit crunch bail out. The average student graduates GBP20,000 in debt. The prospect of paying off that debt and saving for a deposit for a one bedroom flat is remote, and it is all the fault of our parents. Anyone under the age of 35 is living in the shadow of the Baby Boomer Generation who grew up in an era of rapidly growing prosperity, drew wages from jobs for life, got their education for free, and bought multiple cars and TVs that they didn't need. The enormous financial debt we've been handed comes from both their megalomania of overspending and their reckless economic and political decision-making. And it is going to get worse. There are roughly 900 days left until the Boomer time bomb goes off and they reach retirement, cease to pay taxes and start drawing pensions. We have one chance to create change, and this is it.
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Neil Boorman is a writer and campaigner living in London. He is best known for his book 'Bonfire Of The Brands', in which he destroyed the branded contents of his life. The book has been translated into 12 languages. A former columnist at The Guardian, Neil has since written and produced campaigns on behalf of Amnesty International, Adbusters, Fairtrade Foundation, World AIDS Day and International Women's Day.
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By James Dixon
Format:Paperback
I read extracts from this on Vice, and someone left a comment saying 'the truth is hard to swallow'. And they were right.
This book doesn't pull any punches, but then it is a manifesto, not a text book. Although all the arguments are backed up with facts that are hard to dispute.
We (and by that I mean young adults) can bury our heads in the sand and pretend that all the major problems looming on our horizon will go away. But they'll only get worse. Anyone that feels up to dealing with reality should read this sooner than later.
This book doesn't pull any punches, but then it is a manifesto, not a text book. Although all the arguments are backed up with facts that are hard to dispute.
We (and by that I mean young adults) can bury our heads in the sand and pretend that all the major problems looming on our horizon will go away. But they'll only get worse. Anyone that feels up to dealing with reality should read this sooner than later.
8 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By Quango
Format:Paperback
Bought this book for my wife who is writing a thesis on Generation Y and thought it may present an interesting and thought-provoking take on the subject. Though on receiving it, I realised it is not a text book, it is a manifesto - nothing more than a brief, pointless, baseless and biased protest that is reminiscent of the laughable rants that `Rick` used to have in the TV comedy `The Young Ones': `Well, in that case, I'm going to write to the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen'...
There is no rational argument, just endless quoting of statistics leading to a call to arms. For any book of this kind to be convincing or worthy, it should recognise there are counter-arguments, present them and distinguish them, but this lazy manuscript doesn't even attempt this. It is written in an anarchic style as though trying to mirror the mood it wants to generate in it's readers. And it's obviously written in a hurry.
The fact that the author will make easy money from this book suggests that by writing it, he has become everything he hates.
For the record, the baby-boomers did not have it that easy, leaving school early, many worked in factories and took far fewer holidays than their children do. When they die, they will leave behind a huge number of properties that will sell so cheaply, the cycle will simply start over again.
The demographics we face over the next couple of decades are incredible and fascinating but not to be feared, and the answer is certainly not a mass cull of our parents.
In other words, you will not find any answers in this book.
There is no rational argument, just endless quoting of statistics leading to a call to arms. For any book of this kind to be convincing or worthy, it should recognise there are counter-arguments, present them and distinguish them, but this lazy manuscript doesn't even attempt this. It is written in an anarchic style as though trying to mirror the mood it wants to generate in it's readers. And it's obviously written in a hurry.
The fact that the author will make easy money from this book suggests that by writing it, he has become everything he hates.
For the record, the baby-boomers did not have it that easy, leaving school early, many worked in factories and took far fewer holidays than their children do. When they die, they will leave behind a huge number of properties that will sell so cheaply, the cycle will simply start over again.
The demographics we face over the next couple of decades are incredible and fascinating but not to be feared, and the answer is certainly not a mass cull of our parents.
In other words, you will not find any answers in this book.
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