Even in Australia Millennials have been set up for failure. The pattern is the same throughout all the English speaking countries: the schools have been turned into Leftist indoctrination mills that just teach the students how to be perpetually aggrieved.
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The gap between generations is growing with young people behind in material wealth and mental wellbeing, a new book reveals.
'Precariat' generation missing out on Australian lifestyle
The story below is probably correct. It is one of many stories that report on the unemployability of many young people today. And where lies the blame for that? Squarely on the Left-dominated educational system with its emphasis on saving the planet and glorifying homosexuality.
Kids are encouraged to embark on studies that lead nowhere. Take the kid used as an example below. What did he do his degree in? "Contemporary music". Making money as a musician has always been a grind. It's an oversupplied market. I knew a lot of musicians once and they were all usually "skint".
My son shows how it can be if you have useful skills. He was "headhunted" during his very first job interview by a member of the interviewing panel and given a job immediately. So what are his skills? He is an IT professional. He is at ease writing multiple computer programming languages. And such skills don't necessarily take long to acquire. I learnt to program computers in the FORTRAN language from a course that consisted of just 4 mornings. - john J. Ray
Young Australians have fewer opportunities for full-time work and affordable housing, creating a new "precariat" social class lacking security and predictability, according to a new book.
Jennifer Rayner, author of Generation Less: How Australia is Cheating the Young, said policies skewed towards the older generation dramatically increased disparities between the young and the old.
This, she said, had placed an "enduring handicap" on those born from the 1980s onwards.
"There have always been gaps between younger people and older people in Australia, and that's true everywhere because young people are starting out in life, because they haven't had as much time in the workforce," Ms Rayner said.
"But over the last 30 years in Australia what has happened is that all of those gaps are getting wider.
"What the data shows is that young people are going backwards compared to the people the same age 15 years ago."
Less than one in 30 young people reported being underemployed in the 1970s. But that figure now stood at about one in six, Ms Rayner said.
The number of young people working casually also jumped from 34 per cent in 1992 to 50 per cent in 2013.
Over the same period, the percentage of people working without entitlements in their 40s and 50s barely moved.
Unless policies around housing and the casualisation of the workforce changed, the disadvantage would become entrenched, Ms Rayner said.
"The fact that all of these trends and factors are ganging up on young people means that their experience of being an Australian is basically different from other generations," she said.
"The [youth] are currently part of the precariat and they will find themselves locked in there as they grow older, if these trends continue, and if nothing changes in their circumstances."
Ms Rayner said instability affected the material and emotional wellbeing of the young.
Something that 26-year-old Sam Johnston knows only too well. Mr Johnston moved to Melbourne in 2015 with his girlfriend Edie after a year travelling overseas.
He failed to find full-time work, but a bachelor's degree in contemporary music and a graduate diploma in education from Southern Cross University in NSW means he has a debt of about $30,000 "hanging over his head".
Mr Johnston said he "gave up" looking for full-time work in the "depth of winter" and was now focused on his gigs, which were easier to get. He also volunteers as a teacher's aide and tutors students to gain experience.
But the lack of income and the absence of a community in the new city has taken a toll. "I had a bout with depression last year which lasted nine months," Mr Johnston said. "I am still on antidepressants now, which is coming to a close very shortly."
Grattan Institute chief executive John Daley said the book's finding was consistent with the institute's research.
"There is a real danger of a generation that will be less well off than its parents," Mr Daley said.
"You can see it in an older cohort that has much more wealth than their predecessors, whereas wealth in younger households is not going up very fast.
"You see it in incomes, you see it in ... very rapidly falling rates of home ownerships."
Several factors, including rapidly falling interest rates, an age-based tax, welfare, and superannuation system geared towards older workers, were responsible for the situation, Mr Daley said.
http://www.theage.com.au/
The story below is probably correct. It is one of many stories that report on the unemployability of many young people today. And where lies the blame for that? Squarely on the Left-dominated educational system with its emphasis on saving the planet and glorifying homosexuality.
Kids are encouraged to embark on studies that lead nowhere. Take the kid used as an example below. What did he do his degree in? "Contemporary music". Making money as a musician has always been a grind. It's an oversupplied market. I knew a lot of musicians once and they were all usually "skint".
My son shows how it can be if you have useful skills. He was "headhunted" during his very first job interview by a member of the interviewing panel and given a job immediately. So what are his skills? He is an IT professional. He is at ease writing multiple computer programming languages. And such skills don't necessarily take long to acquire. I learnt to program computers in the FORTRAN language from a course that consisted of just 4 mornings. - john J. Ray
Young Australians have fewer opportunities for full-time work and affordable housing, creating a new "precariat" social class lacking security and predictability, according to a new book.
Jennifer Rayner, author of Generation Less: How Australia is Cheating the Young, said policies skewed towards the older generation dramatically increased disparities between the young and the old.
This, she said, had placed an "enduring handicap" on those born from the 1980s onwards.
"There have always been gaps between younger people and older people in Australia, and that's true everywhere because young people are starting out in life, because they haven't had as much time in the workforce," Ms Rayner said.
"But over the last 30 years in Australia what has happened is that all of those gaps are getting wider.
"What the data shows is that young people are going backwards compared to the people the same age 15 years ago."
Less than one in 30 young people reported being underemployed in the 1970s. But that figure now stood at about one in six, Ms Rayner said.
The number of young people working casually also jumped from 34 per cent in 1992 to 50 per cent in 2013.
Over the same period, the percentage of people working without entitlements in their 40s and 50s barely moved.
Unless policies around housing and the casualisation of the workforce changed, the disadvantage would become entrenched, Ms Rayner said.
"The fact that all of these trends and factors are ganging up on young people means that their experience of being an Australian is basically different from other generations," she said.
"The [youth] are currently part of the precariat and they will find themselves locked in there as they grow older, if these trends continue, and if nothing changes in their circumstances."
Ms Rayner said instability affected the material and emotional wellbeing of the young.
Something that 26-year-old Sam Johnston knows only too well. Mr Johnston moved to Melbourne in 2015 with his girlfriend Edie after a year travelling overseas.
He failed to find full-time work, but a bachelor's degree in contemporary music and a graduate diploma in education from Southern Cross University in NSW means he has a debt of about $30,000 "hanging over his head".
Mr Johnston said he "gave up" looking for full-time work in the "depth of winter" and was now focused on his gigs, which were easier to get. He also volunteers as a teacher's aide and tutors students to gain experience.
But the lack of income and the absence of a community in the new city has taken a toll. "I had a bout with depression last year which lasted nine months," Mr Johnston said. "I am still on antidepressants now, which is coming to a close very shortly."
Grattan Institute chief executive John Daley said the book's finding was consistent with the institute's research.
"There is a real danger of a generation that will be less well off than its parents," Mr Daley said.
"You can see it in an older cohort that has much more wealth than their predecessors, whereas wealth in younger households is not going up very fast.
"You see it in incomes, you see it in ... very rapidly falling rates of home ownerships."
Several factors, including rapidly falling interest rates, an age-based tax, welfare, and superannuation system geared towards older workers, were responsible for the situation, Mr Daley said.
http://www.theage.com.au/
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