I havent read it yet but privatisation brings managers, lots of managers, accountants, quanitity surveyors and so on, especially when its public procurement.
If its that stuff and shedding that waste then I’m tentatively supportive.
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Would a lack of support networks be a factor? TikTok and Instagram don’t count.
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TikTok self-diagnosis is a contributing factor though
Is it really?
I think there are loads of things going on. A general despair that there isn’t much of a future to plan for would be high up the list.
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That’s a good discussion point. It’s a general problem, not only related to the UK. My take: the strain of social media on young peoples’ brains, the huge uncertainty about what the future will bring, and beyond that, a lack of meaningness. What is the deep purpose of the work they are asked to do? To entertain a neoliberal economic machine which has run amok already and is threatening to take us all in the abysses of destruction (climate change, mass species extinction, etc.)?
Faced with all this, a lot of them experience distress and depression, and I completely understand this. As you say, this can’t be answered with a simple ‘go back to work, you lazy bugger’. There is a lot of suffering going throughout our youth, and it would be wrong to dismiss it.
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I blame the Tories.
They created a nation of furlough addicts.
Might I suggest you look into the actual studies people have done around unemployment?
The vast majority people don’t want to be unemployed or underemployed, even with sufficient financial support. They want to be doing something meaningful with their lives.
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Fixed
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As are the addicts
Fixed.
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Just out of curiosity has zero hour contracts been discussed by the new government?
Edit theres this:
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Haha @cynicaloldgit
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I… agree with Wes Streeting?
9000+ jobs to go?
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Starmer got his explanation spot on.
"Layers of bureaucracy ".
Hopefully the money saved will be used well
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It blows my mind that anyone thinks we should keep foreign rapists in the country
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1900998251102281887?s=46&t=o3XUPKxiqJH7KZYdWMCtqg