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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1097490" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>Obviously generations go through hardships but economically my generation have not actually experienced a "boom" period yet, just bust, sluggish recovery from bust before the next crisis. I've not know another generation alive that has gone through pretty much 15 years of just one crisis after another without at least some sort of serious recovery and growth in between or a serious reorganisation of society. Generally after 15 years of problems you'd think you'd be on an upwards trend, we're on a downwards one with governments that down there with some of the worst in the last century. I don't think anyone can point to a period since the crash of 2007 and say it was really a period of great cultural change or prosperity, just stagnation culturally and economically. The high inflation may be short lived but the relative drop in wealth, on top of 15 years of already dropping, will have a huge impact and we could be looking at easily over a decade to reverse all the damage. 3 decades of stagnation, progressive wage drops, price increases, higher taxation but fewer services etc... Hell even the generation that lived through the 2 world wars had a period of prosperity in between (unless you were German). Obviously what they lived through was far worse but it's just that complete lack of proper recovery that is really hurting. There's just no spark, no feeling that things are actually getting better, just slowly sliding down the slope of worse and worse standards of living with no sign in sight of it being reversed.</p><p></p><p>It's like the energy has been sapped out of the country.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1097490, member: 56232"] Obviously generations go through hardships but economically my generation have not actually experienced a "boom" period yet, just bust, sluggish recovery from bust before the next crisis. I've not know another generation alive that has gone through pretty much 15 years of just one crisis after another without at least some sort of serious recovery and growth in between or a serious reorganisation of society. Generally after 15 years of problems you'd think you'd be on an upwards trend, we're on a downwards one with governments that down there with some of the worst in the last century. I don't think anyone can point to a period since the crash of 2007 and say it was really a period of great cultural change or prosperity, just stagnation culturally and economically. The high inflation may be short lived but the relative drop in wealth, on top of 15 years of already dropping, will have a huge impact and we could be looking at easily over a decade to reverse all the damage. 3 decades of stagnation, progressive wage drops, price increases, higher taxation but fewer services etc... Hell even the generation that lived through the 2 world wars had a period of prosperity in between (unless you were German). Obviously what they lived through was far worse but it's just that complete lack of proper recovery that is really hurting. There's just no spark, no feeling that things are actually getting better, just slowly sliding down the slope of worse and worse standards of living with no sign in sight of it being reversed. It's like the energy has been sapped out of the country. [/QUOTE]
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