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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Intifar Chowdhury

Australia’s economy has become a young people-screwing machine. So how do we unscrew ourselves?

Greens supporters celebrate the results of the 2022 federal election in Melbourne. Research shows young Australians are not becoming more conservative as they age.
Greens supporters celebrate the results of the 2022 federal election in Melbourne. Research shows young Australians are not becoming more conservative as they age. Photograph: James Ross/AAP

No one woke up one fine morning with the grand ambition to mess with an entire generation just for kicks. Yet here millennials are, unequivocally, unmistakably, screwed.

This is evident when I compare my 29-year-old self to my mother who had it all: debt-free, married, two kids and a stable home sweet home. Meanwhile, I’ve stacked up four uni degrees, struggle to pay off debt, live paycheck to paycheck, and burn the midnight oil 16 hours a day, seven days a week just to prove ... well, something. Hats off to mother dear, but seriously, does this seem fair?

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