Thread: Gen Y's again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Needed to resurrect that one The Four Yorkshiremen

Originally Posted by Chris Parks

My mum used to say that the trouble with kids is they want to start where their parents left off not from where the parents started from. It is very true in a lot of ways unfortunately, my kids would never drag carpet home from the local tip like I did to put on the floor and we had it for many years. We have never owned a new lounge suite or kitchen table etc, my kids are used to that but they wouldn't do the same.

How many "new" tools do you have Chris [emoji12]

Every generation decides on how they want to live. That often involves a trend away from their parents' generational beliefs and attitudes by discarding what they see as negative and adopting new ways and means; some good, some bad.

IMO, all we can do as parents in our childrens' formative years is the following:
- Watching what you say and do because most of what they learn comes from you. The Golden Rule is a good basis to start.
- Nurturing their self esteem by encouraging what they do well.
- Believing that respect is a two way street.
- Asserting your parental authority before they reach four years of age. Every year past that becomes more difficult.
- Teaching them about actions and consequences.

The young live in a pretty harsh world created mostly by us, the boomers who had it all. We did it, so now we'll have to deal with it.

mick

Paid education, high unemployment, part time casual work, no unemployment benefits, income taxes, stellar housing prices, usurious rents, rates to bleed you to death, debt for life, no retirement, no benefits - EVER

Seriously, look to when you were 25, now try to look at a 25 year old today.

They don't want anything you have, for they cannot afford it.

The benefits you receive, they will never have, yet their taxes pay for it.

Before you moan about how hard your lives were, you haven't seriously considered the woeful regime of debt and taxes imposed on them and the benefits/entitlements you receive to which they will not.

You are only thinking in terms of material possession, what you have and what they have. You see a daily latte and new tshirt as "good", as wealth, as extravagance. Utter crap. You don't see the $650 weekly rents and 8 people to a shared house. The 3 part time casual jobs with the weekly threat of being fired, while paying off degrees for jobs they will never get.

What the entire baby boomer generation utterly fails to see is the seething resentment an entire generation has towards it.

You will be lucky if there isn't a revolution.

Originally Posted by Simplicity

How many "new" tools do you have Chris [emoji12]

Matt, quite a lot since I retired, before that none of my machines were new, I started with a Mk3 triton and always bought second hand machines after that. It was a curious thing to experience when I wanted to sell those used machines, no one wanted them at all and my Wadkin Bursgreen jointer I eventually gave away to get it out of the shed to someone whose circumstances were less fortunate than mine. The triton went the same way to a mate who was renovating a house and needed a table saw and had no money at the time. Why people do not like buying used machines is a mystery to me.

Originally Posted by Chris Parks

Matt, quite a lot since I retired, before that none of my machines were new, I started with a Mk3 triton and always bought second hand machines after that. It was a curious thing to experience when I wanted to sell those used machines, no one wanted them at all and my Wadkin Bursgreen jointer I eventually gave away to get it out of the shed to someone whose circumstances were less fortunate than mine. The triton went the same way to a mate who was renovating a house and needed a table saw and had no money at the time. Why people do not like buying used machines is a mystery to me.

And these days people like me love used machines, especially the stuff before I was even a thought.
Way over half my shed tools pre date me by decades.

Cheers Matt