| Comment | After Christmas I do think there is just a real gulf of understanding between older and younger people.
I don't know where it comes from but it feels like at a certain age, at least *some* people just stop actually listening to what their younger relatives are saying and just fall back to stereotypes or things they remember. "Things are really hard today" become "they were hard for me too" and if you try to explain what's different today they just make out that you're lazy or complaining too much or something, while they themselves sit totally isolated from what you're talking about.
Personally I think changing the definition of 'low income' would go a long way to actually help things. It should mean *anyone* with low income **after** overheads. Students etc. would be included too that way like they're not currently - e.g. you don't really have 'higher' income if you get given a 2k loan for 3 months that's immediately 75% swallowed up by rent. |
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