Jenny Andrew on Nostr: The thing that really fucks me off about this #NationalService announcement is the ...
The thing that really fucks me off about this #NationalService announcement is the undertone that “the problem with young people today” is they just don’t have sufficient ‘patriotic spirit’ to do these jobs for fuck all money when they’re faced with a lifetime of debt for the education I, and everyone older than me, had state funding for; shit pensions; late, if any, retirement; no chance of buying a house unless they have a rich benefactor…
Young people aren’t the problem. The system is.
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