Shouldering the cost of the Baby Boomer legacy is destroying my generation’s prospects

It's time for young people to fight inter-generational injustice – and it may be that top-down bureaucracy is one way to do it.

By Rhiannon Cosslett

(Photo By Debt is central to the lives of Generation Y, while their parents had fun for free. Photo: Flickr/Eden, Janine and Jim)

It’s always nice, when you suspect that you may be being screwed, to have it confirmed officially by those in power. It just helps firm things up a bit, mentally.

Being a part of Generation Y (also known in newspeak as the “fuck it”, or “lost” generation, which consists of “millennials”, or people born roughly between the early Eighties and the early 2000s) naturally means facing a parade of regular headlines to that effect, but confirmation has now been received.